Wesley Brethren Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Wesley Brethren Church is an historic church in Wesley, Texas, United States. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1966 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Wesley Brethren Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Austin County · listed in 1979 · 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.
Address. S of Wesley, Wesley, 77833
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR (AD); Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
Census division. Industry
National Register reference number. 79002910 - 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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wesley Brethren Church between 2000 and 2018, burning about 60 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
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ODONNELL FARM
28 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 81
12 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	5353 BECKERMANN ROAD
26 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 332
17 July 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SALEM RD
15 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 109 AUSTIN COUNTY

Every fire recorded in Austin 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 Wesley Brethren Church: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
	Brenham Dome Prospect	Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure	Occurrence	Halite

Every working recorded in Austin 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
	Witte-Schmid House	5.8 miles	1997
	Roesler House	7.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002910 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Austin 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.
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.