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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lavaca County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kahn and Stanzel Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 115 N. Main St., Hallettsville, 77964
- When was it listed? November 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. Hallettsville
- Architect. James Riely Gordon
- National Register reference number. 14000964 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
81 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Kahn and Stanzel Building between 2004 and 2011, burning about 224 acres in total. 1 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 | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HALLETTSVILLE KC PARK |
| 20 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | DITCH FIRE |
| 15 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallettsville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallettsville | $50,000 | Trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds in Sweet Home. Power lines and trees were downed in Halletsville. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Hallettsville | $5,000 | The Sheriff's Department reported hail slightly larger than one-inch in diameter. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Hallettsville | $5,000 | The Sheriff's Department reported golf ball-sized hail at New Kinkler at 1915 CST, with nickle- to quarter-sized hail in Halletsville at 1941 CST. |
| December 1995 | Hail | Hallettsville | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lavaca County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1971 |
 | Lay-Bozka House | 0.3 miles | 1971 |
 | Church of the Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary | 3.2 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000964 in Record Group 79. |
| Lavaca County | All 9 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.