Howard L. and Vivian W. Lott House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Lott House located at 311 East Kilpatrick Street in Mineola, Wood County, Texas, is a house designed in the Prairie School style with classical details. It is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Howard L. and Vivian W. Lott House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lott, Howard L. and Vivian W.,House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 311 E. Kilpatrick St., Mineola, 75773
When was it listed? October 1998
Category. building
Census division. Mineola
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 98001185 - 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

283 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Howard L. and Vivian W. Lott House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 780 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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	168
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	77
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6230
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
4 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
4 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this property

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineola, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 27 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 4 tornado, 3 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
May 2003	Tornado (F2)	Mineola	5 hurt, $330,000	A strong cyclic supercell tornado developed over Mineola, Texas while a strong tornado developed shortly there after and moved to the east northeast. Numerous Pine, Oak, and other species of trees were either snapped or pushed over along the entire tornado track. Power lines were taken down across many locations along the track as well. The tornado moved over a small community of Pine Mills and destroyed 1 old frame home and 2 old mobile homes while damaging 9 others. Four injuries occurred including 1 broken leg. This tornado moved into Upshur, Harrison, and Marion Counties of northeast Texas.
February 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Mineola	$250,000	In Wood County, a volunteer fire station roof collapsed, and a manufactured home roof was peeled back on one side. Several other homes nearby north of Hwy. 80 east of Mineola were damaged from falling trees and wind between Hwy. 80 and Farm to Market 1801.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	$100,000	A large tree fell on a home on McWhorter Street crushing the home. Another tree fell on a home on North Johnson Street and damaged a carport. Another tree was downed across West McDonald Street and some utility poles were also downed in town. There were no reports of injuries.
January 1995	Hail	Mineola	$40,000	Tennis ball-size hail damaged automobiles and roofs.
April 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Mineola	$30,000	An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds between 100-110 mph touched down east of Highway 69 just east of Mineola along County Road 2700, where several trees were snapped and uprooted along its path. One large oak tree fell onto a home along County Road 2740, before the tornado lifted before crossing Highway 80.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	$30,000	Several trees down. One tree fell on a house and a barn as damaged from the wind.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	$25,000	Damage occurred to structures and trees from high winds.
September 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Mineola	$5,000	The tornado touched down east northeast of Mineola, Texas. Damage consisted of a few trees snapped at mid trunk and large branches broken off other trees. A mobile home was shifted off its foundation a few feet but not rolled. The mobile home was anchored down. The porch associated with the mobile home was removed as well. A portion of a roof attached to an outbuilding was also removed. The tornado was rated and EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale with a path length of nearly one mile and a path width of 50 yards. DOD-2.
June 2024	Hail	Mineola	-	Quarter size hail reported in Mineola.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Numerous trees and power lines downed across Wood County.
June 2023	Hail	Mineola	-	Quarter size hail reported near Lake Brenda.
June 2023	Hail	Mineola	-	Quarter size hail reported near Mineola.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Ten trees and power lines were downed in the central and southern sections of Wood County.
April 2020	Hail	Mineola	-	A picture of quarter size hail that fell at Lake Brenda just north of Mineola, was posted to social media.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Numerous trees were blown down along Highway 80 in Mineola.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	West Mineola	-	Widespread trees and power lines were down in Mineola.
May 2019	Flood	Mineola	-	Moderate flooding developed along the Sabine River south of Mineola as a result of persistent heavy rains that fell across the Sabine basin throughout much of April and May. Widespread rainfall amounts of five to ten inches fell across the basin during April, with additional widespread amounts in excess of ten inches falling during May. As a result, the Sabine River south of Mineola rose above the 18 ft moderate flood stage at 4 pm on May 8th, before cresting at 19.53 ft at 7 pm on the 10th. The Sabine River fell back below the moderate flood stage at 9 am on May 15th. Farther downstream on the Sabine River just south of Hawkins, the river rose above the 32 ft moderate flood stage at 9 pm on May 10th, and crested at 34.2 feet at 12 pm on May 12th. The Sabine River fell back below the 32 ft moderate flood stage at 11 pm on May 15th. This flooding inundated some barns and secondary roads including FM 1804 in Southern Wood and Northern Smith Counties through mid-May before receding.
February 2018	Flash Flood	Mineola	-	High water on FM 1254 northeast of Mineola.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in Mineola.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	A very large tree limb was blown down onto a home on Newsome Street in Mineola. This resulted in roof damage to the home.
April 2016	Flash Flood	Mineola	-	Farm to Market Road 1254 from Loop 564 to Farm to Market Road 778 northeast of Mineola was closed due to flooding.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees were downed across the western side of the county.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Numerous trees were downed across the county.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Widespread trees were downed across the county.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Several trees were downed in Mineola, Texas.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Mineola	-	Hwy. 80 was flooded and closed in Mineola, Texas.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	A large tree was downed onto Hwy. 69 in Mineola, Texas.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	A tree was downed in Mineola, Texas.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees were downed inside and outside the Mineola, Texas city limits.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Measured wind gust of 58 mph at the ASOS in Mineola, Texas.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Several trees were downed across Hwy. 80 and the FM. 1799 intersection.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Powerlines were downed just south of town.
April 2007	Hail	Mineola	-	Golfball sized hail reported in Quitman, Texas.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees downed in town.
March 2004	Hail	Mineola	-	Hail fell in the Pleasant Grove Community.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees downed.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees blown down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Numerous trees and power lines downed countywide.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Wind measured by trained spotter.
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees were uprooted by high winds.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 2007	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
	Mineola Downtown Historic District	0.2 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001185 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wood County	All 4 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.