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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Flatonia Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by N. Main, 7th, Middle, Market, 6th, Penn, S. Main & Faires Sts., Flatonia, 78941
- When was it listed? June 2017
- Category. district
- Census division. Flatonia
- National Register reference number. 100001223 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Flatonia Historic District between 1993 and 2013, burning about 304 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 | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 40 |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Flatonia Historic District: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Clay, Fullers Earth. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Fullers Earth | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Balcones Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Flatonia Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Ash Pit | Bentonite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ash Pit | Bentonite | Past Producer | ||
| Mica Pit | Bentonite | Producer | 1981 | |
| Mica Pit and Plant | Bentonite | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flatonia, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flatonia | $20,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Flatonia | $10,000 | no account filed |
| February 1994 | Hail | Flatonia | $5,000 | A severe thunderstorm produce hail of up to one inch in diameter in and around the town of Flatonia. Minor window damage and glass breakage was reported. |
| January 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flatonia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Flatonia | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Flatonia | - | A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Flatonia. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Flatonia | - | Roads at Highway 95 and 609 were closed due to high water. Also, a number of low water crossings within the city of Flatonia had water flowing over them. |
| November 2007 | Flash Flood | Flatonia | - | Thunderstorms moved slowly across southern Fayette County during the evening of November 17 producing very heavy rainfall. Radar estimates showed in excess of 4 inches of rain from 6 PM until midnight and CoCoRAHS observer La Grange 10.2NW reported 7.96 inches in 24 hours ending at 8 AM on November 18. The heavy rain led to flash flooding which closed Highway 90 from Flatonia to Schulenburg due to water over the road. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Flatonia | - | Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in the mid afternoon between Flatonia and Schulenburg. Maximum totals were reported to be near 4 inches between the two towns. Flash flooding closed several roads, including FM209 and SH95. |
| January 1994 | Hail | Flatonia | - | Hail between 0.50 and 1.00-inch-diameter was reported in the southern portion of Fayette County , near Flatonia. A radio station in LaGrange relayed a report of pea-size to marble-size hail in Schulenberg. TEXAS, Southern Cont'd |
| February 1993 | Hail | Flatonia | - | Several reports of large hail were made in the county. Golf ball-size hail was reported by a rainfall observer west of Fayette. A weather observer reported quarter-size hail in Schulenburg, nickel-size hail was also reported by a radio station in town a few minutes later. The public reported golf ball-size hail in downtown Flatonia. |
| February 1993 | Hail | Flatonia | - | Several reports of large hail were made in the county. Golf ball-size hail was reported by a rainfall observer west of Fayette. A weather observer reported quarter-size hail in Schulenburg, nickel-size hail was also reported by a radio station in town a few minutes later. The public reported golf ball-size hail in downtown Flatonia. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Flatonia | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Flatonia | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Flatonia | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Flatonia | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Mary's Church of the Assumption | 2.8 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001223 in Record Group 79. |
| Fayette County | All 24 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.