BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Gonzales County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Leesville Schoolhouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. E of Leesville off TX 80, Leesville, 78122
- When was it listed? May 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Nixon
- National Register reference number. 78002937 - 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
11 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Leesville Schoolhouse between 2006 and 2018, burning about 80 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID NIXON |
| 15 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEESIVE HWY80 |
| 9 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 366 |
| 2 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEESIVILLE |
| 11 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE HWY 80 |
| 18 December 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE ON SIDE OF ROAD |
Storms near this property
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leesville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesville | $80,000 | The bow-shaped line along the Hays-Guadalupe-Wilson Counties accelerated as it crossed into Caldwell and Gonzales Counties near 12:30 am CST. The storms were now producing widespread wind gusts of 60 to 70 knots, with spotty higher gusts approaching 80 knots. Again, most of the damage was in the form of trees blown down, with some damages to roofs of homes. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesville | $1,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down large tree limbs along FM 1682. |
| November 2025 | Hail | Leesville | - | A thunderstorm produced hail from pea to nickel size in Leesville. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Leesville | - | A thunderstorm produced two inch hail that broke windows on cars and houses in Leesville. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Leesville | - | Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in western Gonzales County, closing FM1117 due to flash flooding. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Leesville | - | A cluster of thunderstorms stretching from near Pearsall in Frio County across southern Bexar County and northern Atascosa County, through Seguin and Stockdale to Gonzales produced general 2 to 3 inch rain totals and spotty flash flooding problems. Highest rain amounts in Gonzales County were 4 inches near Leesville. US80 was closed south of Belmont, along with FM1117. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Leesville | - | A general rainfall of 2 to 3 inches was reported in western Gonzales County, with up to 5 inches near Leesville. US80 and FM466 were closed. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Leesville | - | Scattered storms in Gonzales and Wilson Counties dropped from 2 to 3 inches of rain, with up to 5 inches near Leesville. FM108 and FM466 were closed in Gonzales County due to flash flooding. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesville | - | Trees were blown down by severe winds. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Leesville | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Leesville | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Leesville | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Leesville | - | no account filed |
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 78002937 in Record Group 79. |
| Gonzales County | All 15 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.