BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 2018 · category: Object.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
La Salle Monument
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. TX 316 at Blind Bayou, Indianola, 77979
- When was it listed? July 2018
- Category. object
- Also known as. Monuments and Buildings of the Texas Centennial MPS
- Census division. Port Lavaca
- National Register reference number. 100002757 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of La Salle Monument between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,942 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 | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | POWDERHORN |
| 28 July 2020 | Natural | 159 acres | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | WHITMIRE THREAT |
| 20 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,400 acres | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | TATTON ASSIST 2 |
| 2 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BIG DUKES |
| 13 April 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 115 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE FM 1289 |
| 5 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | TATTON ASSIST #1 |
| 11 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAGNOLIA |
Storms near this property
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indianola, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Indianola | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | Two boats were capsized just offshore. An RV and shed were completely destroyed along State Highway 316. A home along Brighton Ave lost a few shingles and farther south along Comal St, a power pole was snapped in half and others were damaged to a lesser extent. All damage over land was strewn to the southeast, consistent with straight-line winds. |
| May 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Indianola | - | Funnel cloud reported to the west of Indianola. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002757 in Record Group 79. |
| Calhoun County | All 2 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.