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Photograph of Bandera County Courthouse and Jail
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bandera County Courthouse and Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Bandera County Courthouse and Jail are two separate historic county governmental buildings located near each other in Bandera, Bandera County, Texas, The Bandera County Courthouse, built in 1890 at the corner of Main and Pecan streets, is a Renaissance Revival style building designed by San Antonio architect B. It is three-story building with a central clock tower made from rusticated limestone cut from a local quarry.”

Wikipedia article Bandera County Courthouse and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Bandera 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Public Sq., 12th and Maple Sts., Bandera, 78003
  • When was it listed? October 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Bandera
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79002911 - 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

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bandera County Courthouse and Jail between 2005 and 2017, burning about 284 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 August 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALMER FIRE
29 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBANDERA FIRE
17 May 2006Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSISTRUNK
30 March 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 February 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 February 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 February 2017Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGEORGAN RANCH

Every fire recorded in Bandera County

Storms near this property

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bandera, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 31 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBandera$500,000Thunderstorms produced pea-sized hail and 60 mph wind gusts in Bandera. A building was reported to have been shoved by the winds, but no one was injured.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBandera$25,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down at least ten trees and some power poles on Hwy 16 between Bandera and Medina.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBandera$20,000Strong winds from a thunderstorm caused tree and structure damage near the Lost Valley Golf Course.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindBandera$15,000Severe thunderstorm winds knocked over trees and damaged roofs in Bandera.
March 1999Thunderstorm WindBandera$15,000Trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds..
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBandera$15,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindBandera$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that knocked down trees and peeled back the metal roof of a motel in Bandera.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBandera$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down some large Oak trees and damaged a barn northwest of Bandera.
May 1996HailBandera$5,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBandera$5,000no account filed
February 2024Thunderstorm WindBandera$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a tree which blocked a street in Bandera.
March 2026HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail along Hwy 173 approximately six miles south of Bandera.
July 2025Flash FloodBandera-Several rounds of thunderstorms dropped 2-5 inches of rain causing flash flooding. The Medina River overflowed the bridge on 1st St. in Bandera.
July 2025Flash FloodBandera-Several rounds of thunderstorms dropped 2-5 inches of rain causing flash flooding. The Medina River overflowed the bridge on Schmidtke Rd. in Bandera.
May 2024HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Bandera.
May 2024HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced 2.5 inch diameter hail west of Bandera.
July 2024Flash FloodBandera-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in eastern Bandera County including Whartons Dock Rd., Schmidtke Rd., and Lake Forest Rd.
April 2023HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced egg size hail in Bandera.
April 2023HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in downtown Bandera.
April 2023HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Bandera.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBandera-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 65 mph at the Rock Cliff Reservoir weather station between Bandera and Medina.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBandera-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 60 mph by a personal weather station near FM 3240 and Panther Hollow Dr. between Bandera and Medina.
April 2022HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail in Bandera from 3:10 PM until 3:13 PM.
June 2021HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced hail up to quarter size in Bandera. Most of the hail was nickel to dime size with a few stones the size of quarters.
January 2020HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail southwest of Bandera.
May 2020HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Bandera.
May 2020HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Bandera.
September 2018Flash FloodBandera-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Parts of Hwy 16 and Hwy 173 were closed near Bandera due to water over the road.
August 2016Flash FloodBandera-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 16 near Mansfield Park along the Medina River west of Bandera.
April 2016Flash FloodBandera-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing a low water crossing on Peaceful Valley Rd. near Hwy 16 along the Medina River.
May 2016Flash FloodBandera-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in numerous high water rescues in and around Bandera.
April 2015HailBandera-Penny size hail was reported near the city of Bandera by the public.
March 2012Flash FloodBandera-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding and closed Highway 173 between Bandera and Devine.
April 2010HailBandera-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindBandera-Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged roofs in the area of Lakehills on the north side of Medina Lake.
July 2007FloodBandera-The Medina River at Bandera crested at 16.7 ft on 07/21 at 1115cst, where flood stage is 13 ft.
July 2006Flash FloodBandera-Thunderstorms in the late afternoon produced between 2 and 3 inches of rain near Vanderpool. The flash flooding that developed very quickly closed SH187 south of Vanderpool.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindBandera-Sheriff's Department reports the roof of a mobile home was blown off.
January 2017HailBandera-no account filed
April 2016HailBandera-no account filed
May 2014HailBandera-no account filed
May 2014HailBandera-no account filed
April 2008HailBandera-no account filed
May 2007HailBandera-no account filed
April 2006HailBandera-no account filed
April 2005HailBandera-no account filed
April 2000HailBandera-no account filed
May 1999HailBandera-no account filed
May 1998HailBandera-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBandera-no account filed
February 1998HailBandera-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBandera-no account filed
March 1997HailBandera-no account filed
December 1997HailBandera-no account filed
June 1996HailBandera-no account filed
April 1996HailBandera-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindBandera-no account filed
April 1995HailBandera-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bandera 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Langford, B.F., Jr. and Mary Hay, House0.3 miles2004
Jureczki House0.5 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002911 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bandera CountyAll 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.