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One of 316 National Register listings published here for Harris County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Walker House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3534 Miramar Dr., Shoreacres
- When was it listed? April 2012
- Category. building
- National Register reference number. 12000195 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
3 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Walker House between 1992 and 2015, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | DYGLIESHA JEFFERSON |
| 12 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge | TPHATFIELD |
| 4 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | C15-13570 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Walker House: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Perlite, Perlite, Vermiculite, Halite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Point Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1938 | |
| Filter Media Inc | Perlite, Vermiculite | Producer | ||
| Laporte Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shoreacres, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2002: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Shoreacres | $250,000 | Tornado briefly touched down before moving to the northeast into Galveston Bay as a waterspout. Several boats at the Houston Yacht Club were overturned and a large section of a metal roof was destroyed. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Shoreacres | $3,000 | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sylvan Beach Pavilion | 2.3 miles | 2010 |
 | Sterling, Ross,S., House | 3.3 miles | 1982 |
| Morgan's Point Historic District | 3.5 miles | 1994 | |
| James and Jessie West Mansion | 6.0 miles | 1994 | |
 | Space Environment Simulation Laboratory | 6.6 miles | 1985 |
 | Apollo Mission Control Center | 6.7 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000195 in Record Group 79. |
| Harris County | All 316 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.