Welhausen School and Florita Plaza

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for La Salle County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 204 East Lane St., Cotulla, 78014
When was it listed? September 2021
Category. district
Census division. Cotulla
National Register reference number. 100007001 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

151 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Welhausen School and Florita Plaza between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,810 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
Debris and open burning	92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MADISON POINTE
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 469 3 MILES FROM FM 468
30 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	35 GRASSFIRE
19 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	AVANT HWY97
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MM72 W SIDE
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GUADALUPE FIRE
14 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CITY WATER TOWER
9 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILE MARKER 62

Every fire recorded in La Salle County

Storms near this property

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cotulla, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 22 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 2 flood. 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 2023	Hail	Cotulla	$300,000	La Salle County Sheriff's Office reported hail damage to cars, including broken windshields, in Cotulla from hail up to the size of softballs. The large hail broke windows in several homes.
October 2013	Flood	Cotulla	$50,000	Major flooding along the Nueces River occurred near Cotulla. Some farm and ranch equipment were flooded. Cattle were cut off by the flood waters also.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	$24,000	Two tractor trailers blown over 5 SSW of town (estimated on I-35).
April 2016	Hail	Cotulla	$20,000	Ping pong ball sized hail occurred in Cotulla causing damage to plants. Images relayed to the NWS through Facebook.
April 2016	Hail	Cotulla	$10,000	Quarter sized hail occurred at the Big's Travel Center near Interstate 35 in Cotulla.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Cotulla	$10,000	TXDOT reported a large section of F.M. 624 in rural southeastern La Salle county closed due to flooding. A culvert along 624 was washed out due to the heavy rain. The road remained closed into the next day.\|
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	$5,000	Business signs and power lines were blown down near Interstate 35 in Cotulla.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	$1,000	Thunderstorm wind damage report in Cotulla of chance fencing blown down at the Tx DOT facility.
May 2025	Heavy Rain	Cotulla	-	Observed 1.19. The period of the Rain event was 30 minutes.
April 2024	Hail	Cotulla	-	Trained spotter reported quarter size hail in Cotulla.
April 2023	Hail	Cotulla	-	Public reported through social media that golf ball sized hail occurred in Cotulla.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Cotulla	-	Farm to Market Road 624 southeast of Cotulla had flood waters covering the road.
May 2015	Flood	Cotulla	-	The Nueces River crested at 20.63 feet at Cotulla on the 23rd but was in major flood category from the 22nd to the 30th. The flooding caused several roads around Cotulla to be closed. The frontage road on Interstate 35 near the KOA campground was closed. Farm to Market Road 3408 and Valley Wells Road were closed.
April 2015	Hail	Cotulla	-	Picture received via social media of at least quarter sized hail in Cotulla. Time estimated by radar.
October 2013	Flash Flood	Cotulla	-	Road closures along portions of Texas Highway 97 and Farm to Market Road 624 in Cotulla with 2 feet of water moving over the roads.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Numerous large tree limbs were snapped throughout the city of Cotulla.
March 2006	Hail	Cotulla	-	Quarter-size hail reported in Cotulla as well as in Los Angeles from same storm.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	63 mph wind gust measured at Cotulla (COT). Roof was blown off trailer on Houston Street in Cotulla. Sheriff Office reported wind damage to the I-35 bridge at F.M. 468, where concrete chunks were lying under the bridge.
May 2006	Hail	Cotulla	-	Reported at a truck stop on I-35 near the La Salle and Frio County line (between Millet and Dilley).
September 2006	Flash Flood	Cotulla	-	Law enforcement officials reported water over several roads in Cotulla, requiring barricades.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Railroad crossing snapped in two and tree blown down onto vehicle.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Cotulla	-	Texas DPS reported water over Interstate 35 at mile marker 53. Several cars reported off the roadway. Doppler radar estimated 3 to 5 inches of rain fell just south of Cotulla, near and just east of Artesia Wells.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Power lines and poles were blown down in Cotulla.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Several power lines blown down in city.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Tree blown over on power line which started fire.
August 2001	Hail	Cotulla	-	5 mi SE of Cotulla.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Downed highway signs along I-35
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Thunderstorm wind gust downed numerous large trees and destroyed a roof.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	Numerous reports of several trees blown down and uprooted along with damage to mobile homes by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 1997	Hail	Cotulla	-	Sheriff report of golfball sized hail.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Cotulla	-	Sheriff report of flooded roadways.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Cotulla	-	Sheriff and border patrol report of flooded streets.
May 2008	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
February 2004	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cotulla	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed
August 1996	Flash Flood	Cotulla	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Cotulla	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Salle 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.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other 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
	La Salle County Courthouse	0.7 miles	2007
	Cotulla Ranch	2.5 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007001 in Record Group 79.
La Salle County	All 3 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.