Independence, Texas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

• Mrs. Sam Houston Houselisted 1970
• Seward Plantationlisted 2013
• Baylor University Female Departmentlisted 2024
• Baylor University Male Departmentlisted 2024
• Asa Hoxey Houselisted 1976

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1914 USGS Gay Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Independence between 2001 and 2020, burning about 822 acres in total. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Sandy Hill
• Prairie Hill
• William Penn

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Independence in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1338384. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.