Mary Christian Burleson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Bastrop County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 117 Louise Street, Elgin, 78621
When was it listed? January 2024
Category. building
Census division. Elgin
National Register reference number. 100009778 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Mary Christian Burleson House between 1992 and 2011, burning about 954 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TASK FORCE 12
29 August 1992	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1340 CTY LINE RD ELGIN
16 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NATURES WAY
27 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mary Christian Burleson House: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Weaver Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer	Sedimentary
Landing Strip Pit	Clay	Producer	Clay
Payne Brick Co Plant	Clay	Producer
Payne Clay Pits and Plants	Clay	Producer
Standard Pit & Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer	Clay

Every working recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this property

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elgin, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 19 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 5 tornado. 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
October 1998	Tornado (F1)	Elgin	1 hurt, $30,000	A very small and short-lived tornado struck briefly near Elgin. It destroyed a mobile home and knocked over several trees before lifting back into the parent thunderstorm. The only reported injury was to a baby in the mobile home.
May 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Elgin	$100,000	A NWS storm survey found that a tornado was produced by the bookend vortex \|of a bow echo that moved through the city of Elgin on the afternoon\|of May 23rd 2017. The tornado began just east of Texas Highway 95\|and just north of Roemer Road, where it displaced and flipped a shed \|off its foundation. The tornado then caused extensive damage to a\|business along Roemer Road. As it continued to the east-southeast,\|the tornado ripped the metal roof off a large barn and caused roof\|damage to a well-built home adjacent to the barn. In the pasture \|adjacent to these structures, there were multiple pieces of splintered \|wood that were driven into the ground from the opposite direction from \|which the storm came. Several cattle and a bull were reportedly thrown \|about 1500 feet from one pasture into another, jumping a couple of fences \|in the process. The tornado then completely destroyed an old wooden barn \|just north of Roemer Road. At this point, the tornado was approximately \|moving along Roemer Road, and caused some minor tree damage. The tornado \|then crossed Red Town Road just south of Roemer Road and ended just east \|of Red Town Road, where it caused some minor damage to a structure.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$100,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 75 mph that blew down trees and power lines in Elgin.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$100,000	Several large trees were knocked over by severe thunderstorm winds in and around the Elgin area. Windows were also broken out in homes by large limbs knocked off trees.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$100,000	no account filed
October 1998	Tornado (F1)	Elgin	$50,000	A second small, narrow and short-lived tornado was reported over thirty minutes after the first tornado. It also formed in the Elgin area and stayed on the ground about two minutes. It moved into a light residential area, destroying one home, then lifted up and dissipating. The family in the destroyed home took shelter in the bathroom, escaping injury.
March 2005	Tornado (F0)	Elgin	$40,000	A second tornado descended from the same south end of the line of thunderstorms that had produced the Littig tornado. This touchdown was around 2 miles east of Littig, in Bastrop County, where the Old Shiloh Baptist Church and the new Shiloh Baptist Church both sustained considerable exterior and roof damage. The location is just east of County Line Road and just south of Voelker Lane. This touchdown would have been very brief, less than one quarter mile in length. It was timed near 2202 CST and was rated as F0.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$20,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several trees just east of Elgin.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Elgin	$10,000	Water was inundated at least one home in the city of Bastrop. Numerous road closures were also ongoing in the city.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$10,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph which moved a porch away from a house, downed power lines, and knocked over a couple of trees.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Elgin	$10,000	The Police Department reported brief flash flooding and road closures in the town of Elgin as thunderstorms dropped 3 inches of rain in little over 1 hour.
July 2013	Lightning	Elgin	$5,000	A thunderstorm produced lightning that struck and disabled the 911 Center in Elgin.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$3,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts, estimated at 50 knots, that caused minor damage to a home and knocked over several trees. In addition, this storm dropped quarter size hail.
April 2024	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter to golf ball size hail on the north side of Elgin.
April 2024	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail on the north side of Elgin.
December 2024	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail northeast of Elgin.
May 2021	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. The intersection of FM 1704 and Arbuckle Rd. in Elgin was flooded.
April 2021	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Elgin.
April 2021	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Elgin.
April 2021	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail in Elgin.
June 2019	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced one inch hail in Elgin.
May 2017	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail along Hwy 290 just west of Elgin.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down small tree limbs in Elgin.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph knocked down multiple power poles and damaged some trees and roofs across the southern part of Elgin.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing numerous roads in and around Elgin including Old Sayer Rd., FM 812 near the county line, Woody Ln. at FM 1704, and Young Prairie at FM 1704.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	The low water crossing at County Line Road and Highway 290 was closed due to high water.
April 2015	Hail	Elgin	-	Nickel size hail was reported in the city of Elgin by local law enforcement.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding requiring high water rescues of people in stranded vehicles in Elgin.
March 2014	Hail	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail at Elgin High School.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that downed trees on Red Town Rd. in Elgin.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding on N. Avenue B, N. Avenue C, W. 3rd St., and Brenham St. in Elgin.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 290 at County Line Rd. outside of Elgin.
January 2012	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding near Elgin. People were rescued from flood waters along Highway 290. A CoCoRAHS observer southwest of Elgin reported 5.58 inches of rain from these storms.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Heavy rain over Caldwell and Bastrop Counties averaged between 2 and 3 inches in the early morning hours, with up to 7 inches between Elgin and Bastrop. SH95, FM1704, and FM2336 were closed.
January 2007	Flood	Elgin	-	Wilbarger Creek in Elgin crested at 34.10 feet at 2100cst on January 13, where 27 feet is flood stage.
June 2007	Flood	Elgin	-	Wilbarger Creek at Elgin crested at 30.2 feet at 2300cst on June 20, where 27 feet is flood stage.
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	As the severe line of thunderstorms moved eastward, they produced winds that uprooted trees both to the east and the west of SH95, south of the town of Elgin.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Thunderstorms forming along the northern Texas Hill Country in the late afternoon moved southward into the evening hours. The storms knocked over trees near Elgin.
November 2000	Tornado (F0)	Elgin	-	A small and short-lived tornado was observed by the public near Elgin. It caused no damage.
March 1993	Hail	Elgin	-	Half-dollar-size hail was reported in Utley by a weather observer. As a second areas of thunderstorms moved into the county, quarter-size hail was reported between Elgin and Bastrop. Five minutes later the Elgin Police reported quarter-size hail just south of Elgin. Hail up to softball-size was reported in Paige. At least one car had its windshield knocked out.
May 2013	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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

1 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
	Elgin Commercial Historic District	0.9 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009778 in Record Group 79.
Bastrop County	All 101 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.