Seward Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Seward Plantation is a historic site built in 1855, a Southern plantation-turned-ranch located in Independence, Texas. The Seward Plantation has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 29, 2013.”
Wikipedia article Seward Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 2 structuress, 2 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10005 FM 390 E., Independence, 75966
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. district
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 12001250 - 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.

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Independence, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 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
July 1996	Hail	Independence	$10,000	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Independence	$5,000	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Independence	$3,000	Trees down on the south end of Lake Somerville.
April 2006	Hail	Independence	$2,000	Penny size hail.
April 1995	Hail	Independence	$1,000	Sheriffs office reported golf ball-size hail just west of Independence.
October 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Independence	-	Law enforcement reported a large tree down at the intersection of FM 50 and CRF 390 in Independence, Texas.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Independence	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees near the intersection of FM 50 and FM 390.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001250 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 71 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.
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.