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Photograph of George W. Fulton Mansion
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

George W. Fulton Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Fulton Mansion State Historic Site is located in Fulton on the Texas Gulf Coast, in the county of Aransas, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is one of the earliest Second Empire style buildings constructed in Texas and is one of the most important of the style in the Southwest United States still in existence.”

Wikipedia article Fulton Mansion Historical Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Aransas County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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.
  • Listed as. Fulton, George W., Mansion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Fulton Beach Rd., Fulton, 78382
  • When was it listed? April 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fulton
  • Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
  • National Register reference number. 75001945 - 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

171 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of George W. Fulton Mansion between 2006 and 2020, burning about 964 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Debris and open burning42
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Natural3

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFULTON WISHERT BRUSH FIRE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3300 BYPASS 35
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCKPORT BRUSHFIRE ASSIST
3 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2101 MRYTLE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service418 RATTLESNAKE POINT RD
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service414 OLD SALT LAKE RD
13 September 2012Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service510 RATTLESNAKE POINT RD
1 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2200 FM 1781

Every fire recorded in Aransas County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2012Thunderstorm WindFulton$100,000NWS Storm survey determined straight-line winds struck a narrow corridor in Fulton between Farm to Market Road 3036 and West Mesquite Street. The winds caused widespread tree damage. A mobile home lost its roof and a metal storage building partially collapsed along Farm to Market Road 1781. An RV was rolled on Circle Drive. Large tree damage was also observed all the way to Fulton Beach Rd. Wind speeds were estimated to be from 70 to 80 mph.
June 2024Tornado (EF0)Fulton$25,000Two brief EF-0 tornadoes were produced from the same parent|circulation as a waterspout came ashore near Rockport, TX. The initial|damage as it came on shore was confined to some minor tree damage and a|few shingles missing from a couple homes. The tornado then lifted and |eventually reformed near FM1781 where it destroyed a couple carports and|two sheds. It also snapped some smaller trees and broke numerous large|branches before dissipating.
June 2020Flash FloodFulton$5,000Vehicle stalled in deep water near Enterprise Boulevard and Omohundro Street in Rockport.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFulton$5,000Several people were trapped in an overturned trailer.
June 2024Heavy RainFulton-Spotter reported 5 inches in the Rockport area.
September 2010Heavy RainFulton-Rainfall total of nearly 3 inches in the past 8 hours.
October 1998Flash FloodFulton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aransas 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

4 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
Rockport School2.3 miles2024
Hoopes-Smith House2.3 miles1994
Bracht House2.5 miles2023
T. H. Mathis House3.0 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001945 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aransas CountyAll 6 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.