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Photograph of Liendo Plantation
Photograph by James I. Campbell, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Liendo Plantation

Built in 1853 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Liendo Plantation is a historic cotton plantation in Waller County, Texas, United States. Named after its original owner, José Justo Liendo, the plantation was purchased in 1873 by sculptor Elisabet Ney and her husband, physician Edmund Montgomery.”

Wikipedia article Liendo Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Waller County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · built in 1853, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2 mi. NE of Hempstead off FM 1488, Hempstead, 77445
  • When was it listed? June 1971
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Prairie View-Waller
  • When was it built? 1853
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 71000970 - 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

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Liendo Plantation between 1996 and 2018, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - GRASS
10 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
4 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Waller County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hempstead, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Flash FloodHempstead1 killed, $6,700,000Flooding closed Highway 290 at the Harris and Waller County line. FM 362, FM 359 and FM 527 were all flooded.
May 1999HailHempstead$40,000no account filed
May 2000HailHempstead$25,000Golfball sized hail near SH 6.
April 2003HailHempstead$15,000Tennis ball sized hail covered the ground
December 2002Thunderstorm WindHempstead$15,000Wind damage to a home in Hempstead.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindHempstead$15,000Trees down.
March 2000HailHempstead$15,000no account filed
June 1998HailHempstead$15,000no account filed
September 2001Flash FloodHempstead$10,000Roads flooded just north of Hempstead.
May 2000HailHempstead$10,000no account filed
November 2000HailHempstead$10,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindHempstead$6,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Highway 6 in the Hempstead area.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHempstead$5,000Trees were downed.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindHempstead$5,000Trees down on 16th-17th St.
May 1993HailHempstead$5,000The Waller County Sheriff Department reported golf ball-size hail on Highway 290 in Hempstead.
March 2001HailHempstead$5,000no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindHempstead$5,000no account filed
February 1999HailHempstead$4,000no account filed
March 2007HailHempstead$3,000Nickel size hail.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHempstead$3,00013 trees blown down.
April 2015HailHempstead$2,000Golf ball sized hail was reported in Hempstead.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindHempstead$2,000Department of Public Safety reported trees down along Highway 6 and FM 1736.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindHempstead-Mesonet Station 030HC 4650 HWY 6 at SH290 measured a A 64 mph wind gust.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHempstead-Wind gust occurred at mesonet station 030HC 4650 near Highway 6 and SH 290.
August 2016Funnel CloudHempstead-A funnel cloud was sighted off of FM 1488 near Hempstead.
April 2015HailHempstead-Quarter sized hail was reported in Hempstead.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindHempstead-Tree down.

Every storm recorded in Waller 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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 PropertyDistance Listed
W.R. Banks Library2.4 miles1999
Veterninary Hospital2.8 miles1999
Hilliard Hall3.0 miles1999
L.C. Anderson Hall3.0 miles1999
Annie Laurie Evans Hall3.0 miles1999
G.R. Woolfolk Social and Political Science Building3.1 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000970 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Waller CountyAll 7 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.