Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“Downtown Buda Historic District is a six-block historic commercial area located in Buda, Texas. The oldest building dates from 1881 when the town was created with the arrival of the International-Great Northern Railroad (I&GN).”
Wikipedia article Downtown Buda Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Hays County · listed in 2003 · category: District.
National Register reference number.03001126- 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
42 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Buda Historic District
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
23
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Debris and open burning
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Buda Historic District: 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.
Regional 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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