BlockFrom the record
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Hays County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Onion Creek Post Office and Stagecoach House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Address. 109 N. Loop 4, Buda, 78610
- When was it listed? October 2002
- Category. building
- Census division. Kyle-Buda
- National Register reference number. 02001211 - 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
40 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Onion Creek Post Office and Stagecoach House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 314 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 52 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ESTANCIA |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KYLE CROSSING |
| 18 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 35 |
| 22 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KOHLERS CROSSING |
| 14 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1626 |
| 23 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 June 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | JACK C HAYS |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Onion Creek Post Office and Stagecoach House: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buda Quarry | Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension | Producer | Limestone | |
| Texas Cement Quarry & Plant | Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Howe Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Howe Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| South Austin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand |
Storms near this property
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buda, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 hail, 7 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and windows of homes and knocked over trees in the Buda area. |
| June 2013 | Lightning | Buda | $50,000 | A thunderstorm produced lightning that started a house fire. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a few trees in Buda. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $5,000 | Severe winds blew over trees and sheds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $1,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph that knocked down some one inch tree limbs near Buda. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Buda | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail south of Buda. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Several low water crossings were flooded in central Hays County. Rainfall totals near Wimberley were 8.65 inches. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Buda | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter inch hail south of Buda. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding along the Andrews Branch in Buda. ATXFloods reported that Dacy Ln. was flooded north of Windy Hill Rd. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. ATXFloods reported that Onion Creek ran out of its banks closing Garrison Rd. in Buda. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Buda | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at Cabela's in Buda. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending water over the road in Leisurewoods near Buda. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a water rescue in Buda. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in high water rescues in Buda with many low water crossings closed. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced a general 1 to 2 inch rain between Buda, in Hays County, and Creedmoor, in southeast Travis County. Highest rainfall amounts were near 4 inches. Flash flooding closed FM2001 near Buda and FM 1327 between Creedmoor and IH-35. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | - | Large trees were knocked over. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Buda | - | A TV-Weather Watcher reported dime-size hail in Buda. The San Marcos Police Department reported golf ball-size hail in the Deerwood subdivision. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Downtown Buda Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2003 |
 | Bunton Branch Bridge | 3.3 miles | 2002 |
 | M.G. Michaelis Ranch | 5.4 miles | 2003 |
 | Cora Jackman Donalson House | 7.4 miles | 2010 |
 | Katherine Anne Porter House | 7.4 miles | 2004 |
 | Kyle City Hall | 7.4 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02001211 in Record Group 79. |
| Hays County | All 57 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.