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One of 82 National Register listings published here for Galveston County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Christensen Castle
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 12902 Hwy. 6, Santa Fe, 77510
- When was it listed? June 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Texas City-League City
- National Register reference number. 100011883 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
13 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Christensen Castle between 2004 and 2019, burning about 81 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8702 NEVILLE |
| 19 July 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DELANEY RD |
| 18 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 106 BLUE SKIES GRASS FIRE |
| 15 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9741 HIGHWAY 6 FIRE |
| 6 May 2019 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2004 SOUTH |
| 18 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7555 FM 2004 FIRE |
| 16 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8400 FM 2004 |
| 30 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 66 |
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 Christensen Castle: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Sand Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Fe, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Santa Fe | $100,000 | Tornado touched down in Santa Fe along 4th Street and FM 1764. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $50,000 | 49 railroad cars blown off tracks by high winds. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $40,000 | Numerous fences and trees down in Bay Colony. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $30,000 | A building under construction sustained a damaged roof, twisted rafters and a collapsed frame. Numerous trees and fences were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Santa Fe | $25,000 | Golfball size hail. |
| July 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Santa Fe | $15,000 | An EF-0 tornado produced minor damage to a small home and garage. There was also minor shingle damage to a residence across the street. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $15,000 | Trees down. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $11,000 | 70 foot tall oak tree down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Santa Fe | $8,000 | Golfball size hail. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $7,000 | Tree limbs down. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Santa Fe | $7,000 | Tornado damaged a home porch. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $3,000 | Trees blown down. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Santa Fe | $3,000 | Penny size hail. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Santa Fe | $3,000 | Intersection of FM 1764 and Avenue F impassable due to street flooding. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Santa Fe | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Santa Fe | - | Nickel size hail was reported in the town of Santa Fe. |
| May 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Santa Fe | - | Two funnel clouds were sighted on County Road 168. |
| July 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Santa Fe | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Santa Fe | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Santa Fe | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Stringfellow Orchards | 5.1 miles | 2013 |
 | The Settlement Historic District | 7.2 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011883 in Record Group 79. |
| Galveston County | All 82 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.