Photograph of Neese, William, Sr., Homestead — Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

William Neese Sr. Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 1975 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Neese, William, Sr., Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. TX 237, Warrenton, 78954
When was it listed? February 1975
Category. building
Census division. Round Top
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75001977 - 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

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of William Neese Sr. Homestead between 1998 and 2011, burning about 236 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
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	2

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
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 39
3 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROUND TOP ROAD
23 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 June 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7747 FM 1291 S
13 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 29
11 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrenton, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$25,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 85 mph that caused considerable damage in Warrenton. Several metal siding buildings were destroyed near FM 954 and Hwy 237 and numerous trees were uprooted and snapped near Bauer Rd.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$2,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down tree limbs near the intersection of S. Weyand Rd. and Round Top Rd. just west of Round Top.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$2,000	There were trees reported blown down along highway 237 near the town of Warrenton.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$500	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down some one inch diameter tree limbs in Round Top.
May 2017	Hail	Warrenton	-	A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Round Top.
April 2016	Flash Flood	Warrenton	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 237 in Warrenton.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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

3 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
Cummins Creek Bridge	3.6 miles	1975
Bethlehem Lutheran Church	3.6 miles	1978
Winedale Inn Complex	7.3 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001977 in Record Group 79.
Fayette County	All 24 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.