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Texas Hall, Old Trinity University

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Texas Hall is a historic building on the former campus of Trinity University in Tehuacana, Texas, U.S.. It was first designed in the Gothic Revival style by Joseph Schuster, and completed in 1871.”
Wikipedia article Texas Hall, Old Trinity University, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Limestone County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. College and Westminister Sts., Tehuacana, 76686
When was it listed? July 1978
Category. building
Census division. Mexia
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 78002971 - 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

98 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Texas Hall, Old Trinity University between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,394 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	47
Debris and open burning	31
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	2
Smoking	1
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
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
26 September 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	20201591
26 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	M/A HWY 84 MEXIA
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this property

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tehuacana, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
January 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Tehuacana	$300,000	A National Weather Service damage survey crew found evidence of a tornado outside of the city of Mexia, damaging numerous buildings on the campus of the Mexia State Supported Living Center. The warehouse on the south end of the campus suffered the most damage, as the metal building warehouse lost much of its roof and back wall.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Tehuacana	$75,000	Several medium sized tree limbs were knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds. In addition, a large tree was uprooted and fell into a home. Saturated soils are believed to have contributed to the tree falling over under winds below 60 mph.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Tehuacana	$10,000	Flood waters were reported over some roads in Tehuacana and also at FM 27 and FM 638 between Tehuacana and Wortham.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Tehuacana	$3,000	Multiple trees were reported down across the northeast part of the county. Some trees fell over and blocked roads.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Tehuacana	$1,000	A trained spotter reported that a metal roof panel was torn off over an asphalt decking.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Tehuacana	-	Emergency management reported that Plummer's Creek had overrun its banks, and mainly minor street flooding was occurring in the towns of Mexia, Groesbeck and Coolidge.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Tehuacana	-	A 65 MPH wind gust was estimated 4.5 miles north of Mexia on TX HWY 171.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Tehuacana	-	A 60 mph wind gust was reported at Highway 171 in Tehuacana.
April 2017	Hail	Tehuacana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Booker T. Washington Emancipation Proclamation Park	6.9 miles	1976
	Joseph E. Johnston Confederate Reunion Grounds	7.7 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002971 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Limestone County	All 5 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.