Alvin Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Brazoria County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 200 Depot Centre Blvd., Alvin, 77511
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. building
Also known as. Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Depots of Texas MPS
Census division. Alvin-Pearland
National Register reference number. 100003467 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Alvin Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot between 2004 and 2014, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
2 July 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH
1 July 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE
1 July 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9052
30 June 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9050
3 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	STATE OF TEXAS-HWY 84 & AVE E
18 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMP MOHAWK HWY 35 & CR 191
18 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9041
16 June 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Alvin Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot: 1 producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Flora Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this property

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alvin, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	1 hurt, $200,000	One mobile home destroyed and several mobile homes damaged at Pine Colony subdivision. Car overturned along CR 296.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Alvin	$90,000	Several roads in and around Alvin have high water; water is in homes in Alvin.
August 2001	Tornado (F0)	Alvin	$45,000	Fire Department reported a tornado near FM 2351 and County Road 129. Damage included a few metal roofs torn off buildings and trees down.
October 1997	Flash Flood	Alvin	$20,000	Oak Bend Estates Subdivision flooded with some water making it into homes.
May 2002	Hail	Alvin	$15,000	Hail at CR 435 just south of FM 1462.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$15,000	Numerous trees and street signs down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$15,000	Shed damaged.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$15,000	Trees down on CR 284.
May 2000	Hail	Alvin	$15,000	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$10,000	Trees down in the town of Alvin.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$10,000	Trees down.
June 2004	Hail	Alvin	$7,000	no account filed
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$5,000	Trees and power lines down down in Alvin and Manvel.
January 1997	Hail	Alvin	$5,000	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Alvin	$5,000	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Alvin	$5,000	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$5,000	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Alvin	$4,000	Golfball sized hail reported at a gas station in Alvin.
April 2012	Hail	Alvin	$4,000	Golfball sized hail reported at Alvin Community College.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$3,000	Tree down on power line.
February 1998	Hail	Alvin	$3,000	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$2,000	20" diameter tree blown down.
May 1995	Hail	Alvin	$2,000	National Weather Service employee reported golfball-size hail at his home in Alvin.
May 1995	Hail	Alvin	$2,000	National Weather Service employee reported golf ball-size hail at his home in Alvin.
April 2012	Hail	Alvin	$1,000	Quarter sized hail reported in Alvin.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	Trees were downed.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	Trees were downed across Alvin by strong wind gusts, including several near the police department.
February 2019	Hail	Alvin	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	A huge tree limb was broken off of an oak tree.
May 2018	Funnel Cloud	Alvin	-	A funnel cloud was sighted in North Alvin heading toward Pearland.
October 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	Thunderstorm winds downed many large tree limbs around town.
September 2012	Funnel Cloud	Alvin	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 35.
October 2006	Hail	Alvin	-	Penny-sized hail between Angleton and Alvin.
May 2007	Funnel Cloud	Alvin	-	no account filed

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003467 in Record Group 79.
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.