BlockFrom the record
One of 1 National Register listings published here for San Saba County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
San Saba County Courthouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 500 E. Wallace, San Saba, 76877
- When was it listed? May 2003
- Category. building
- Census division. San Saba
- Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
- National Register reference number. 03000328 - 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
28 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of San Saba County Courthouse between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,220 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | THORTION FIRE |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SMALL FIRE |
| 18 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2009 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOMMY LEE |
| 17 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE |
| 6 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOMMY LEE FIRE |
| 6 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | THORTON FIRE |
| 5 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 1031 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of San Saba County Courthouse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Arch Aggregate Pits | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 73 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Saba, the town this property stands in, in 73 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 41 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | 1 hurt, $50,000 | A teenager, camping at the San Saba River, was struck by a large wind-blown tree limb. The youth sustained a broken collar bone and a punctured lung. Wind damage also occurred at a nearby ranch and to a pecan grove. |
| May 1994 | Hail | San Saba | $50,000 | Wind gusts to 70 mph unroofed several houses and blew out windows. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $50,000 | Wind gusts to 70 mph unroofed several houses and blew out windows. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $15,000 | A camper trailer was destroyed and many tree limbs were knocked down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $11,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Wildfire | San Saba | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $5,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph uprooted trees and disrupted power lines throughout the community. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $5,000 | Trees and outbuildings were damaged by high winds. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $5,000 | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $2,000 | Powerlines blown down |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $2,000 | A hay shed was damaged by high winds. |
| January 1998 | Tornado (F0) | San Saba | $1,000 | A small shed was destroyed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | $500 | A television antennae was blown down and destroyed. |
| May 2025 | Hail | San Saba | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2025 | Heavy Rain | San Saba | - | An LCRA automated rain gauge reported 5.66 inches of rain in 1 hour. |
| April 2025 | Hail | San Saba | - | Law enforcement reported nickel size hail. |
| April 2024 | Hail | San Saba | - | An emergency manager reported quarter to ping pong ball size hail in San Saba. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | - | Law enforcement reported many trees blown down across the city of San Saba. |
| March 2021 | Hail | San Saba | - | Another report of quarter size hail was seen on social media. |
| March 2021 | Hail | San Saba | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail about 5 miles south southwest of San Saba. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | San Saba | - | The Department of Highways reported stranded motorists on county roads and in the town of San Saba due to flooding. Also, water was over the intersection of US 190 and Farm to Market Road 1031 in San Saba. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | - | The San Saba County Sheriff's Office estimated a wind gust to 60 mph. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | San Saba | - | Law enforcement reported flooding across the City of San Saba, including Mill Pond Park and Live Oak Street. |
| May 2014 | Flood | San Saba | - | City street flooding and road closures were reported in San Saba. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | - | Large pecan limbs with a diameter of 6 to 12 inches and a length of 8 feet were blown down. |
| May 2013 | Hail | San Saba | - | Hail covering the ground was reported in San Saba by the public. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | - | Law enforcement reported a large tree limb blown onto Highway 190, approximately 3 miles east of San Saba. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | - | Law enforcement reported an awning ripped off of a local business. |
| June 2009 | Hail | San Saba | - | Quarter size hail was reported on Highway 190. |
| May 2002 | Hail | San Saba | - | A severe thunderstorm produced hail to the size of golfballs in San Saba. |
| May 2002 | Hail | San Saba | - | Hen egg size hail was reported northeast of San Saba on State Highway 16. |
| May 1999 | Flash Flood | San Saba | - | Areas of flooding were reported just north of the town of San Saba. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | San Saba | - | A barn was slightly damaged during a brief tornado touchdown. |
| April 1993 | Hail | San Saba | - | The sheriff's office reported dime-size hail in Richland Springs. Several minutes later wind gust to 60 mph, and dime-size hail were reported by the public in Richland Springs. The sheriff's office then reported a funnel cloud and quarter-size hail in Sloan, west of San Saba. A tornado was later reported in Hall Valley, only minor damage in a field was reported. One inch hail was reported in the city of San Saba by a Television-36 stormtracker. |
| April 1993 | Hail | San Saba | - | Dime-size hail was reported in the eastern part of The City of San Saba by a Television-36 stormtracker. |
| October 1993 | Hail | San Saba | - | Golf ball-size hail fell for the third time in one day. |
| October 1993 | Hail | San Saba | - | Quarter-size hail was reported north of San Saba by a weather observer. |
| April 1993 | Hail | San Saba | - | The sheriff's office reported dime-size hail in Richland Springs. Several minutes later wind gust to 60 mph, and dime-size hail were reported by the public in Richland Springs. The sheriff's office then reported a funnel cloud and quarter-size hail in Sloan, west of San Saba. A tornado was later reported in Hall Valley, only minor damage in a field was reported. One inch hail was reported in the city of San Saba by a Television-36 stormtracker. |
| May 2020 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | San Saba | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | San Saba | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000328 in Record Group 79. |
| San Saba County | All 1 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.