BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for San Patricio County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Taft Public Housing Development (South)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Ave. C, Walnut, 2nd & Ash Sts., Taft, 78390
- When was it listed? August 2018
- Category. district
- Census division. Taft
- National Register reference number. 100002849 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Taft Public Housing Development (South) between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 10 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Taft Public Housing Development (South): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fosboro Phosphate Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taft, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | $25,000 | Images were submitted of a radio tower damaged and partially blown down east of Taft. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | $20,000 | Trees were blown down across the south side of Taft. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | $20,000 | Numerous trees were damaged in Taft. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | $7,000 | Two power poles were snapped at Bravo Street. A large tree and power pole were snapped at Victoria Street. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Taft | - | Texas Department of Transportation reported State Highway 188 was down to one lane due to high water over the roadway between U. S. Highway 181 and Farm to Market Road 631. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Taft | - | U. S. Highway 181 was closed due to flood waters near Taft. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Taft | - | Farm to Market Roads 631, 1944, and 2046 were closed due to flooding between Taft and Odem. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Taft | - | Flooding occurred along Reynolds Street in Taft. Water was high enough to reach half way up fire hydrants. |
| April 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Taft | - | Several eyewitnesses observed a tornado near the intersection of State Highway 188 and Farm to Market Road 631. The tornado remained over open field and produced no significant damage or injuries. |
| April 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Taft | - | Local law enforcement reported a brief touchdown 8 miles north of Taft. No damage was reported. |
| July 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Taft | - | An EF-0 tornado touched down over open country, near Hwy 188 northeast of Taft. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Taft | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Taft Public Housing Development (North) | under 500 feet | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002849 in Record Group 79. |
| San Patricio County | All 6 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.