Red House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Gay Hill via TX 36 and FM 390, Gay Hill, 77833
When was it listed? January 1971
Category. building
Census division. Gay Hill-Independence
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 71000972 - 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

97 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Red House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 586 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	8
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
4 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OVERLOOK PARK
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	201 FM 390 W
22 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	4021 OLD GAY HILL RD.
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	390 WEST
16 September 2013	Fireworks	2.2 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PHILLIPS LANE FIRE
1 September 2013	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9-01-13-2
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 418 FIRE
9 August 2016	Smoking	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	QUARRY ROAD

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gay Hill, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 3 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 2026	Funnel Cloud	Gay Hill	-	Broadcast media shared a video of a funnel cloud moving into the Rocky Creek Park south of Sommerville Lake. The storm that produced this funnel had previously formed an EF-0 over in Lee County before lifting. There has been a report of very minor tree limb damage near the site of the funnel, but damage was so minor it may have been from nearby general thunderstorm winds.
October 2018	Flash Flood	Gay Hill	-	Highway 390 east of Gay Hill was impassable due to high water.
August 2016	Funnel Cloud	Gay Hill	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near Somerville.
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Gay Hill	-	A funnel cloud was reported near Lake Somerville.
April 2015	Hail	Gay Hill	-	Quarter sized hail was reported near Lake Somerville.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Gay Hill	-	Flood waters were inundating the Rehburg Road and FM 1948 intersection.
November 2004	Hail	Gay Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Asa Hoxey House	6.0 miles	1976
Allcorn-Kokemoor Farmstead	6.1 miles	1998
Reue-Eickenhorst House	6.5 miles	1995
Baylor University Female Department	6.7 miles	2024
Baylor University Male Department	7.1 miles	2024
Mrs. Sam Houston House	7.2 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000972 in Record Group 79.
Washington County	All 71 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.