Built in 1907 (Mission Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“Hotel Blessing is a historic hotel located in Blessing, Texas, United States. The hotel was designed by Jules Leffland of Victoria.”
Wikipedia article Hotel Blessing, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Matagorda County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1907, Mission Revival architecture, by Jules Leffland.
National Register reference number.79002993- 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
28 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Blessing
between 2007 and 2019, burning about 630 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
8
Smoking
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Blessing, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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.
A storm chaser shared a video on social media showing the aftermath of heavy rains in Blessing Texas. A large area of standing water can be seen over one property. Additional videos showed debris over the roadway along FM 1862 from flooding. Shallow water was still flowing over the roadway several hours after the event concluded, with surrounding areas still inundated well after the rains ended.
A storm chaser shared a video on social media showing the aftermath of heavy rains in Blessing Texas. A large area of standing water can be seen over one property. Additional videos showed debris over the roadway along FM 1862 from flooding. Shallow water was still flowing over the roadway several hours after the event concluded.
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
1 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.
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.
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