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One of 82 National Register listings published here for Galveston County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Stringfellow Orchards
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 7902 TX 6, Hitchcock, 77563
- When was it listed? February 2013
- Category. building
- Census division. La Marque-Hitchcock
- Architectural style. Victorian architecture
- National Register reference number. 13000043 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
31 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Stringfellow Orchards between 2008 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 12 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3042 CEDAR |
| 6 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEDAR DR #2 |
| 2 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 519 |
| 16 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 412 AVE D |
| 12 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2605 CORBETT |
| 1 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEDAR DR |
| 16 August 2015 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH RIDGECREST FIRE |
| 9 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7100 GULF STREET |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stringfellow Orchards: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Materials Co | Clay, Silica | Producer | ||
| Gulf Chemical and Metallureical Co | Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay | Producer | Clay, Sand | |
| Unnamed Pit | Clay | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Baulch Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hester Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Clay, Sand |
Storms near this property
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hitchcock, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 4 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Hitchcock | 1 hurt, $22,000 | An EF-0 tornado completely destroyed one mobile home roof and partially damaged another one. There was one minor injury in one of the mobile homes. Trees were also uprooted and one tree fell on a vehicle. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Hitchcock | $1,100,000 | A severe thunderstorms produced baseball to softball sized hail in Hitchcock. The central and western parts of the town received extreme damage to vehicles and home roofs and windows. There was also significant damage to the Midway Church, a fire station, and in two trailer parks. Seven Hitchcock police cars were severely damaged by the large hail. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchcock | $50,000 | Railroad crossbars blown down and touching power lines at FM 2004 and SH 6. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hitchcock | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Hitchcock | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Hitchcock | $2,000 | Quarter sized hail reported along Highway 6 from the intersection with FM 2004 east to the fire and police stations in Hitchcock. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Hitchcock | - | There were numerous reports of either high water in low lying locations or impassable roadways due to flooding. There were flooded roads around Friendswood, League City at the Gulf Freeway and Highway 96, the I-45 feeder roads near FM 646 in Dickinson and in Texas City near the high school. |
| July 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Hitchcock | - | A funnel cloud was sighted off of FM 2004 heading east towards Hitchcock. |
| June 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Hitchcock | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Settlement Historic District | 3.3 miles | 2010 |
| Christensen Castle | 5.1 miles | 2025 | |
 | Col. Hugh B. and Helen Moore House | 7.5 miles | 1994 |
 | Frank B. Davison House | 7.7 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000043 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.