State Highway Bridge 5 at Big Pine Creek

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From 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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. FM 1510, 1.4 mi. E 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. Sumner
National Register reference number. 96001103 - 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

94 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of State Highway Bridge 5 at Big Pine Creek between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,005 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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	59
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 79 FIRE
7 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOPE5
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS-P.HART
3 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DR TROUT FIRE
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHED FIRE MAXEY
22 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RICHARDSON
22 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GIVENS

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this property

11 since 1993

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Lamar County

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

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
State Highway 5 Bridge at High Creek	5.4 miles	1996
Samuel Bell Maxey House	6.8 miles	1971
Mt. Canaan Baptist Church	6.8 miles	2024
Paris Grocer Company	6.9 miles	2025
Scott-Roden Mansion	6.9 miles	1983
McCormic-Bishop House	7.1 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001103 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.
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.