BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Kendall County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Gazebo for Alber Steves
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 105 FM 473, at east portion of property, Comfort, 78013
- When was it listed? December 2004
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Sculpture by Dionicio Rodriguez in Texas MPS
- Census division. Comfort
- National Register reference number. 04001171 - 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
84 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Gazebo for Alber Steves between 2006 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 1 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 | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 609 FM 289 |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 100 BLK OF SCHLADOER |
| 29 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 10 WB 528 MM |
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1621 BURN PILE |
| 16 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1621 ELECTRICAL FIRE |
| 16 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 100 BLK PEEK RANCH RD |
Storms near this property
27 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comfort, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 hail, 6 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Comfort | 1 killed | A young lady drowned on Cypress Creek near the intersection of Highway 27 and Water Street in Comfort. The car was swept off into the creek due to heavy rain. Two occupants made it to safety. One other occupant drowned and was recovered several miles downstream. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Comfort | $5,000,000 | There was catastrophic flash flooding along the Guadalupe River after around ten inches of rain fell in approximately four hours over the headwaters of the river. The flood wave moved downstream into Kendall County. Water from the Guadalupe backed up Cypress Creek in Comfort. Water was 5.6 feet above the bridge on 7th St in Comfort. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comfort | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew roofs off homes in the Comfort area. |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comfort | $80,000 | Damaging winds knocked over several trees and damaged a home just south of Comfort in a path that ran from north to south. The winds tore a patio roof off the house, lifted it up over the roof and deposited it on the south side of the house. Some of the trees damaged in the area had diameters of over 12 inches. The winds were preceded by heavy rain, and followed by hail and a small tornado. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Comfort | $50,000 | Golf ball to baseball-size hail was reported in Comfort. The County Sheriff's Office reported a large signs blown down and wind damage to a gas pump in Boerne. Several cars were damaged across the County. |
| October 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comfort | $10,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that tore some metal roofing and solar panels off a house near Comfort. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Comfort | $5,000 | Golf ball to baseball-size hail was reported in Comfort. The County Sheriff's Office reported a large signs blown down and wind damage to a gas pump in Boerne. Several cars were damaged across the County. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Comfort | - | A thunderstorm produced up to lime sized hail in Comfort. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Comfort | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Comfort. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Comfort | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Comfort. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Comfort | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Comfort. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Comfort | - | There were reports of several low waters crossings being flooded along Highway 473. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Comfort | - | A general 2 to 3 inch rain over northern Kendall County resulted in numerous rural roads cut by flash flooding through the afternoon. FM473 and FM1376 were closed near Sisterdale. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Comfort | - | The hail broke windows in homes and vehicles and damaged the bodies of vehicles in the area. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Comfort | - | Between 1 and 2 inches of rain fell between Comfort and Sisterdale, with up to 4 inch totals just south of Comfort. FM473 was closed due to flash flooding east of Comfort. FM1376 was closed south of Sisterdale. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Comfort | - | An NWS survey found evidence of a tornado that struck at the southeast end of the wind damage area in Kendall County, about one mile south of the Waring exit off IH10. Trees at one home in this area again showed severe damage with many broken off above the ground and others blown over. However in this one case the tree limbs and trees were not oriented toward the southeast but instead were generally laid down in all different directions. The home within 50 yards of the damage area suffered no damage at all. This change in orientation, along with the very narrow area, the well defined nature of the path, and stronger level of damage, led the team to conclude that the damage was caused by a small and short-lived tornado. The tornado was rated as F0. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comfort | - | Widespread severe damage from the line of thunderstorms was also found along SH27 between Center Point and Comfort in Kendall County. Large tree limbs were knocked out of trees and healthy mesquite trees of up to 8 inches in diameter were broken off above the ground or blown over completely. This level of damage continued eastward to just beyond Comfort. It appeared to stretch southward from this portion of SH27 for around 4 miles. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Comfort | - | Thunderstorms over western Kendall County produced general 1 to 2 inch totals. Highest amounts were near 3 inches between Comfort and Boerne, where several roads, including FM1376 and FM473 were closed due to the flooding. |
| March 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Comfort | - | A small tornado developed behind the damaging winds, heavy rain, and large hail, moving southward for three-fourths of a mile, then lifting. It did not appear to have caused any damage |
| March 1995 | Hail | Comfort | - | Sheriff's department reports golf ball-sized hail at Comfort. Shortly afterward, damaging winds knocked down numerous large tree limbs in Boerne. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Comfort | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Comfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Comfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Comfort | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Comfort | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Comfort | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Comfort | - | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hygieostatic Bat Roost | 0.3 miles | 1983 |
 | Otto Brinkmann House | 1.6 miles | 1977 |
 | Comfort Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 1.6 miles | 2004 |
 | Comfort Historic District | 1.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Treue Der Union Monument | 1.9 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04001171 in Record Group 79. |
| Kendall County | All 12 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.