BlockFrom the record
One of 101 National Register listings published here for Bastrop County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Abraham Wiley Hill House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Hill, Abraham Wiley, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 5 mi. SW of Hills Prairie, Hills Prairie, 78602
- When was it listed? March 1971
- Category. building
- Census division. Cedar Creek-Red Rock
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 71000920 - 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.
Fires near this property
243 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Abraham Wiley Hill House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,157 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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 | 98 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 72 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WATTERSON |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1513 FAYETTE ST |
| 7 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCALLISTER ROAD - 184 |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1000 95 HWY N |
| 22 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRAFTS PRARIE FIRE |
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hills Prairie, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Hills Prairie | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending six inches of water over Hwy 71 at Harmon Rd. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Hills Prairie | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Washington Jones House | 3.7 miles | 1978 | |
| Farm House | 3.8 miles | 1978 | |
 | House at 311 Pecan | 3.9 miles | 1978 |
 | Alf Jung House | 4.0 miles | 1978 |
| P. A. Fry House | 4.0 miles | 1978 | |
 | Colorado River Bridge at Bastrop | 4.0 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 71000920 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.