Ammon Underwood House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Ammon Underwood House is a historic house in East Columbia, Texas, U.S.. It was first built as a log house for Ammon Underwood in 1835.”
Wikipedia article Ammon Underwood House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Brazoria County · listed in 1976 · 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. Underwood, Ammon, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main St., East Columbia, 77486
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. building
Census division. Brazoria-West Columbia
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 76002011 - 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

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Ammon Underwood House between 2008 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
5 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GST. PAUL
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GST. PAUL
24 June 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 586
22 May 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 345
9 March 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 517
3 March 2009	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 344
17 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 353
17 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 36

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ammon Underwood House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	West Colombia Salt Dome	Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	1901

Every working recorded in Brazoria 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
East Columbia Historic District	0.1 miles	1991
Varner-Hogg Plantation	2.2 miles	1980
Palapa Table for James Richard Marmion	6.8 miles	2004
Gazebo for James Richard Marmion	6.8 miles	2004
Brazoria Bridge	6.9 miles	1991
Henry Smith Statue	7.0 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002011 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brazoria County	All 12 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.