Photograph of San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site — Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

San Felipe de Austin Historic and Archeological District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site is an American historic site located in San Felipe, Austin County, Texas. The site preserves the location of the first provisional capital and Anglo-American colony in Mexican Texas.”
Wikipedia article San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Austin County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 15945 FM 1458, San Felipe, 77474
When was it listed? October 2016
Category. district
Census division. Sealy
National Register reference number. 16000716 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

34 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of San Felipe de Austin Historic and Archeological District between 2009 and 2020, burning about 136 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURN BAN VIOLATION
30 September 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
7 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
17 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
12 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 36 & GRUBBS RD
9 July 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of San Felipe de Austin Historic and Archeological District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Chew Mine	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Austin County

Storms near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Felipe, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	San Felipe	1 killed, $2,000	Severe thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree limb down onto a tent at Stephen F. Austin Park crushing a camper.
October 2013	Flash Flood	San Felipe	$20,000	Heavy rains caused flash flooding in and around the Sealy area. Several roads throughout the area were impassable, including the intersection of Highway 36 and Highway 90. There was some water damage to the Sealy Intermediate and Sealy Junior High schools.
June 2004	Hail	San Felipe	$20,000	Hail along I-10 near the Austin-Waller County line.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	San Felipe	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged some trees in the San Felipe area.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	San Felipe	$2,000	Power lines were downed.
July 2011	Funnel Cloud	San Felipe	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near the intersection of Crosby Huffman Road and South Diamond Head Boulevard.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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 16000716 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Austin 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.
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.