BlockFrom the record
One of 37 National Register listings published here for Lamar County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
State Highway 5 Bridge at High Creek
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. FM 1509, 1.8 mi. W of jct. with FM 38, Brookston, 75421
- When was it listed? October 1996
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges of Texas MPS
- Census division. Roxton
- National Register reference number. 96001102 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
19 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of State Highway 5 Bridge at High Creek between 2006 and 2017, burning about 632 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 99 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 553 |
| 27 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6267 |
| 20 August 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 160820 |
| 12 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 6186 |
| 10 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 160810 |
| 30 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RON TRIBBLE |
| 27 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PHILLIP RANCH BALER |
| 19 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 274 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | METRO GATES FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of State Highway 5 Bridge at High Creek: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this property
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookston, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2004: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $35,000 | A barn, two sheds, a satellite dish, part of a fence, and trees were destroyed by high winds. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $3,000 | Large trees and power lines were blown down in Brookston, and at Lamar Point on the southwest corner of Pat Mayse Lake. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $500 | A telephone pole was blown onto a road by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Highway Bridge 5 at Big Pine Creek | 5.4 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96001102 in Record Group 79. |
| Lamar County | All 37 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.