Hopewell School

Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Hopewell School, also known as the Hopewell Rosenwald School, is a former African American school in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. that was built in 1921-1922, a time of racial segregation in the United States. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 15, 2015, and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2022.”
Wikipedia article Hopewell School (Cedar Creek, Texas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Bastrop County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1921, by Samuel L. Smith.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 690 TX 21 W., Cedar Creek, 78612
When was it listed? June 2015
Category. building
Also known as. Rosenwald School Building Program in Texas MPS
Census division. Cedar Creek-Red Rock
When was it built? 1921
Architect. Samuel L. Smith
National Register reference number. 15000334 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell School between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,636 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	237
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MARTIN LN
9 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	362 OLD 71
8 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TUCK ST
7 September 1992	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	719 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNION CHAPEL
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	POPE BEND RD S
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1209

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this property

20 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Creek, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 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
May 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Cedar Creek	1 hurt	A NWS storm survey team concluded a tornado touched down just west of Cedar Creek in Bastrop County. The tornado snapped and uprooted many trees. Twelve homes along the path of the tornado were damaged with barns and a large greenhouse destroyed. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Creek	$150,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a barn, damaged two other barns, and overturned a mobile home in the Cedar Creek area.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Cedar Creek	$30,000	Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inch rain totals over northwest Bastrop County, with up to 4 inches between Cedar Creek and Utley. Many roads in Bastrop County were closed due to high water, including FM969 and FM1704.
May 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Cedar Creek	$10,000	A small, weak tornado touched down along County Road 242, McDonald Ln. E., and generally toward the east producing EF0 damage to a home at the corner of Martins Crossing Dr. and Single Oak Crossing. There was damage to several fences and the roof and chimney of one house. Winds were estimated to be 80 mph.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Creek	$5,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that caused damage to some trees and a house in Cedar Creek.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Creek	$2,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that damaged some awnings and other structures.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Cedar Creek	-	Thunderstorm produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 21 near Maha Creek in Cedar Creek.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Creek	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that caused heavy damage to a residential structure.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Creek	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew over several very large trees.
March 2012	Flash Flood	Cedar Creek	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Jenkins Rd and FM535 near Cedar Creek.
January 2012	Flash Flood	Cedar Creek	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding in several subdivisions in and near Cedar Creek. A CoCoRAHS observer west-northwest of Bastrop reported 9.35 inches of rain from these storms.
May 2011	Hail	Cedar Creek	-	A thunderstorm produced pea to penny size hail for 10 minutes.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Cedar Creek	-	Thunderstorms over Bastrop County produced between 1 and 2 inches of rain, with highest amounts near 4 inches in the Bastrop area. FM20 and FM1441 were closed due to high water.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Creek	-	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several oak trees along FM535 near Cedar Creek.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Creek	-	The Bastrop County Sheriff's Department reported several trees blown down near Cedar Creek by severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2011	Hail	Cedar Creek	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cedar Creek	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cedar Creek	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Cedar Creek	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Cedar Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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 15000334 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bastrop County	All 101 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.