State Highway 34 Bridge at the Trinity River

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The State Highway 34 Bridge at the Trinity River near Rosser, Texas was built in 1933-34. It brought State Highway 34 across the Trinity River, between Ellis County, Texas and Kaufman County, Texas.”
Wikipedia article State Highway 34 Bridge at the Trinity River, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Kaufman County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. TX 34 at the Ellis and Kaufman Cnty. line, Rosser, 75119
When was it listed? October 1996
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Texas MPS
National Register reference number. 96001109 - 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

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of State Highway 34 Bridge at the Trinity River between 2005 and 2019, burning about 569 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2011	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JONES RD/FERRIS
28 August 2013	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2013-165
14 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 July 2013	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2013-110
29 July 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010-287

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosser, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2014	Hail	Rosser	$6,000	The Kaufman County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail near Rosser.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosser	$5,000	Emergency management reported that the roof was blown off of the Cottonwood Community Center.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosser	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
February 2017	Hail	Rosser	-	Trained Spotter report quarter inch hail near FM 1390 and HWY 34, approximately 2.45 ENE of Rosser.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Rosser	-	Amateur radio operators reported a brief tornado near Cottonwood.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosser	-	Broadcast media reported trees and power lines down in the town of Rosser, TX.
January 1998	Hail	Rosser	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosser	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kaufman County	All 8 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.