Municipal Power Plant

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 59 National Register listings published here for DeWitt County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 810 Front St., Yoakum, 77995
When was it listed? November 1996
Category. building
Census division. Yoakum
National Register reference number. 96001356 - 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

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Municipal Power Plant between 2006 and 2017, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 July 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD CUERO RD
26 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1198 CR 323
20 July 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 293
22 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	STATE HWY 111 EAST
20 May 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2017038
19 March 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 77A
10 March 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 395

Every fire recorded in DeWitt 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	May-Hickey House	1.8 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001356 in Record Group 79.
DeWitt County	All 59 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.