Devine Opera House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Medina 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.
Address. Transportation Blvd., Devine, 78016
When was it listed? April 1975
Category. building
Census division. Devine-Natalia
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75001999 - 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

301 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Devine Opera House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,462 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	169
Debris and open burning	88
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH/GRASS FIRE CR 777
8 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VEHICLE/GRASS FIRE 502 CR 6612
7 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE 486 CR 7713
3 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE M/M 123 INTERSTATE 35
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	140 CR 2660

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Storms near this property

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Devine, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	$10,000,000	Hail propelled by winds estimated at over 80 mph broke windows and destroyed vegetation across the southeast corner of the county. The hail was piled up to 3 feet deep in many locations, and, in spite of temperatures through the mid morning in the mid 60s to near 70, hail piles were still visible at noon when the NWS survey team arrived. Over 1000 windows were broken out of homes and cars in Devine. Major damage was reported to 12 homes with minor damage to nearly 1300 others. Hundreds of cars were damaged by the combination of wind and hail. Also several school buses were damaged.
February 1998	Hail	Devine	$10,000,000	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	$50,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that snapped two power poles and downed power lines. Winds also damaged some roofs and blew down some trees.
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	$50,000	Downburst winds caused damage to a church and damaged cars in Devine.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	$25,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which caused damage to several buildings and knocked over some trees in Devine.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a volunteer fire station and caused damage to several buildings in Devine. Half-inch hail was reported with the storm and city power was knocked out for an hour after midnight.
May 2024	Hail	Devine	-	A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Devine.
January 2020	Hail	Devine	-	A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail northwest of Devine.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down trees in the Devine area.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph near Hwy 173 and FM1343 northwest of Devine.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Devine	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several roads in Devine.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Devine	-	Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed multiple roads near Devine.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Devine	-	Thunderstorms in Medina County dropped from 3 to 4 inches of rain, closing SH132, SH173, and FM2200 due to flash flooding.
March 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Devine	-	A chase team reported that a small, short-lived tornado had formed to the southwest of the first tornado near the town of Devine. It tracked briefly toward the northeast, lifting and dropping along a half-mile path. The tornado was estimated at 30 yards wide and was rated as an EF-0.
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Devine	-	A very small and short-lived tornado was observed by officers from the Department of Public Safety in an open area just south of Devine. It caused no known damage.
April 2016	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
March 2009	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Devine	-	no account filed
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Devine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Medina 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001999 in Record Group 79.
Medina County	All 9 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.