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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Fort Bend County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Imperial Sugar Company Refinery Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 198 Kempner St., Sugar Land, 77498
- When was it listed? June 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. Sugar Land
- National Register reference number. 100001253 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
17 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Imperial Sugar Company Refinery Historic District between 2011 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E073 |
| 4 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 309 CR. 4360 |
| 3 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE |
| 27 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W PENNINGTON |
| 2 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND/GRASS FIRE |
| 29 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 715 SECR 1190 |
| 8 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Imperial Sugar Company Refinery Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pugmill #3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lamar-Calder House | 7.8 miles | 2005 |
 | John M. and Lottie D. Moore House | 8.0 miles | 2001 |
 | Methodist Church of Richmond | 8.0 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001253 in Record Group 79. |
| Fort Bend County | All 8 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.