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One of 71 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2024 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Baylor University Female Department
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 8415 Old Baylor College Rd., Independence, 77833
- When was it listed? 2024-08-12
- Category. site
- Census division. Gay Hill-Independence
- National Register reference number. 100006856 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
165 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Baylor University Female Department between 2001 and 2020, burning about 823 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 100 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9/7/2016 |
| 6 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9/6/2011 |
| 4 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2621 |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9800 FM 2621 |
| 30 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PALESTINE RD |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KETTLER RD |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Independence, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Hail | Independence | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Independence | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Independence | $3,000 | Trees down on the south end of Lake Somerville. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Independence | $2,000 | Penny size hail. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Independence | $1,000 | Sheriffs office reported golf ball-size hail just west of Independence. |
| October 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Independence | - | Law enforcement reported a large tree down at the intersection of FM 50 and CRF 390 in Independence, Texas. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Independence | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees near the intersection of FM 50 and FM 390. |
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor University Male Department | 0.5 miles | 2024 | |
 | Mrs. Sam Houston House | 0.6 miles | 1970 |
| Asa Hoxey House | 0.7 miles | 1976 | |
 | Fritz Paul and Emma Schroeder House | 3.8 miles | 1994 |
| Reue-Eickenhorst House | 4.7 miles | 1995 | |
| Red House | 6.7 miles | 1971 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006856 in Record Group 79. |
| Washington County | All 71 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.