Alden B. Dow Office and Lake Jackson City Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Dow Office and Lake Jackson City Hall is a historic, single-story, wood-frame commercial building in Lake Jackson, Texas, located near Freeport. Built in 1943, it was designed by noted Michigan architect Alden B.”
Wikipedia article Alden B. Dow Office and Lake Jackson City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Brazoria County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Dow, Alden B., Office and Lake Jackson City Hall - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 101 S. Parking Pl., Lake Jackson, 77566
When was it listed? March 2010
Category. building
Census division. Brazosport
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Alden B. Dow
National Register reference number. 10000050 - 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Alden B. Dow Office and Lake Jackson City Hall between 2008 and 2012, burning about 107 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2012-000259
1 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MAMOTH LAKE
3 February 2009	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEVEN F AUSTIN
19 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
13 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
9 January 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 January 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOCKINGBIRD
22 January 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alden B. Dow Office and Lake Jackson City Hall: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Leggett Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Miller Sand Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Riggs Oak Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this property

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Jackson, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	$125,000	Trees downed on houses, roof partially blown off American Apartments, numerous powerlines down, McDonalds sign blown down, softball fence blown down.
October 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Lake Jackson	$50,000	An EF-0 tornado tracked from a subdivision south of the Brazos Mall knocking down fences and shallow rooted trees. The tornado then tracked across Hobby Lobby and the eastern end of the mall where it caused roof damage. It then continued into a subdivision to the northeast of the mall uprooting several large trees. Estimated peak wind speed was 85 mph.
June 2007	Lightning	Lake Jackson	$30,000	Lightning struck a home on the 200 block of Peppermint Drive casing a fire. The home was saved with significant roof and upstairs interior burn damage and some lower floor water damage.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	$25,000	Trees down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	$20,000	Tree blown into a house in Lake Jackson. There were also trees blown down and power out in the area.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and many tree limbs.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	$11,000	Trees down.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Lake Jackson	$10,000	Bumper-high street flooding. Water threatening homes in the Winding Woods subdivision.
April 2015	Lightning	Lake Jackson	$5,000	A lightning strike caused damage to a structure.
April 2002	Hail	Lake Jackson	$5,000	Lake Jackson and Richwood Village received 3/4 inch Hail.
September 2002	Tornado (F0)	Lake Jackson	$5,000	Tornado sighted west Lake Jackson and CR 332 (very brief touchdown).
May 1993	Hail	Lake Jackson	$5,000	Brazoria County Sheriff Department reported quarter-size hail in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	$5,000	no account filed
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	$1,000	Truck blown off road.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Jackson	-	Numerous trees will downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts and blocking streets within town.
April 2015	Flash Flood	Lake Jackson	-	Heavy rain caused residential street flooding that left some roadways impassable across northern Lake Jackson.

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
Durazno Plantation	5.9 miles	1980
Brazoria Bridge	6.6 miles	1991
Henry Smith Statue	7.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000050 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brazoria 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.
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.