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One of 211 National Register listings published here for Travis County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Cox Springs School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.
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. 18725 Old Burnet Road, Jonestown, 78645
- When was it listed? March 2026
- Category. building
- Census division. Northwest Travis
- National Register reference number. 100012796 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
75 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Cox Springs School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge | BLONDIE FIRE |
| 27 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2020002006 |
| 27 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge | POLE |
| 14 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20200001946 |
| 13 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LANSING CV |
| 3 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRYSTAL COVE |
| 29 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.6 acres | Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge | BURNT TRUCK FIRE |
| 29 August 1993 | Natural | 10 acres | Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge | VICTORIA |
Storms near this property
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonestown, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Hail | Jonestown | $160,000,000 | A thunderstorm moved through the Austin area and produced hail ranging from quarter to teacup size. We received 14 reports of severe size hail, nine of which were two inches or larger. The teacup size hail was reported by the media and fell near the Austin Arboretum. |
| September 2012 | Flash Flood | Jonestown | $100,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding down Big Sandy Creek that washed several docks, that were on dry land near drought stricken Lake Travis, down stream. Upstream rainfall of 7.75 inches in approximately three hours caused a 10 foot rise on the creek. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jonestown | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that knocked down some three inch tree limbs and damaged a roof in Jonestown. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Jonestown | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail on the west side of Cedar Park. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Jonestown | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southwest of Leander. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Jonestown | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Jonestown. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Jonestown | - | A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail in Jonestown. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Jonestown | - | A NWS storm survey found evidence of a weak EF-0 tornado that initially touched down near FM 1431 and produced damage at a school. The tornado traveled northeast and caused considerable tree damage in the Indian Hills subdivision before dissipating right near the Williamson County line. Other wind damage was observed near New Hope Dr., but could not conclusively be associated with this tornado path. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Jonestown | - | Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed Lime Creek Road south of Fisher Hollow near Cedar Park. |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Jonestown | - | Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inches of rain from Lago Vista westward to the Burnet County line. Highest amounts were 4 inches at Lago Vista. Law enforcement reported that FM2222 and FM1431were were closed due to flash flooding. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Jonestown | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Jonestown | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Jonestown | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012796 in Record Group 79. |
| Travis County | All 211 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.