BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Matagorda County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Christ Episcopal Church
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. 206 Cypress St., Matagorda, 77457
- When was it listed? April 2012
- Category. building
- Census division. Matagorda-Sargent
- Architectural style. Gothic Revival
- National Register reference number. 12000196 - 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
16 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Christ Episcopal Church between 2018 and 2020, burning about 96 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE COUNTY DUMP |
| 30 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 17 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TROPICAL MANIAC PALM TREE FIRE |
| 16 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 16 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEVEE GRASS FIRE |
| 13 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ICW GRASS FIRE |
| 26 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RIVER BEND RD GRASS FIRE |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Matagorda, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Lightning | Matagorda | 1 hurt | A 52 year old male was struck by lightning and injured while lying on the beach a few miles southwest of the Colorado River mouth. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Matagorda | $30,000 | Flooding in and around Matagorda, three homes flooded on South 60. |
| October 1996 | Flash Flood | Matagorda | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Matagorda | $10,000 | Army Corps of Engineers reported a large waterspout moved onshore near the Matagorda Locks and lifted trees. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Matagorda | $5,000 | Trees were blown over in a residential neighborhood in Matagorda. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Matagorda | - | Wind gust occurred at the East Matagorda TCOON site. |
| July 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Matagorda | - | The outer rain bands of Hurricane Dolly produced a funnel cloud that was sighted close to the intersection of the Colorado River and the Intracoastal Waterway. |
| July 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Matagorda | - | The funnel cloud was sighted just west of the intersection of the Colorado River and the Intracoastal Waterway. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Matagorda | - | SH 60 near Matagorda, along with secondary roads off of FM 521, in the southern part of the county are impassable due to water over the roadways. |
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Matagorda | - | Highway 60 was impassable due to flood waters. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Matagorda Cemetery | 0.9 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000196 in Record Group 79. |
| Matagorda County | All 14 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.