Willow City School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Willow City School is at 2501 Ranch to Market Road 1323 in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District in 1961.”
Wikipedia article Willow City School (Gillespie County, Texas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Gillespie County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2501 RM 1323, Willow City, 78675
When was it listed? May 2005
Category. building
Census division. Stonewall
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000385 - 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

43 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Willow City School between 2005 and 2018, burning about 3,252 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2

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
16 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROMARA LN
30 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 August 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2005	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 August 2015	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILLOW LOOP
8 July 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD WILLOW RD.
7 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this property

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow City, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 17 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow City	$100,000	Severe thunderstorm winds damaged roofs of homes and knocked over trees near Willow City. A home weather station recorded wind gusts to 51 knots
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow City	$100,000	As the line of thunderstorms associated with the late season cold front moved southward into Gillespie County, they produced severe winds that knocked over large trees and blew down power lines from Willow City southward to near Stonewall. Damage was also indicated to some roofs and homes, and one trailer east of Fredericksburg was overturned. Winds were estimated by residents of the area as approaching 100 mph.
April 2023	Hail	Willow City	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Willow City.
March 2023	Hail	Willow City	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Willow City.
May 2021	Hail	Willow City	-	A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail southwest of Willow City.
May 2021	Hail	Willow City	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size south of Willow City.
October 2018	Flash Flood	Willow City	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing RM 1631 and RM 1323 east of Willow City.
April 2015	Hail	Willow City	-	Quarter size hail was reportedly covering the ground near Willow City.
April 2014	Hail	Willow City	-	A thunderstorm produced hail ranging from pea to quarter size which covered the ground in Willow City.
October 2010	Hail	Willow City	-	A thunderstorm produced marble to quarter size hail near Willow City.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Willow City	-	Thunderstorms dropped a general 1 inch rain over the northern part of Gillespie County. Highest totals were near 3 inches between Willow City and Stonewall. Many of the county rural roads were closed due to flash flooding, including SH16 and FM1323.
November 2004	Tornado (F0)	Willow City	-	A second Gillespie County tornado was reported by the Sheriff's Department to have struck the community of Willow City near 1910CST. It was about 20 yards wide and was on the ground for less than short-lived and caused minor damage to some trees before lifting and dissipating. It was rated F0 on the Fujita Scale.
April 2014	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Willow City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gillespie County

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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rheingold School	4.0 miles	2005
Cave Creek School	6.7 miles	2004
Nebgen School	7.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000385 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gillespie County	All 18 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.