Old St. Anthony's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Nueces County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. S. Violet Rd. and TX 44, Violet, 78380
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. building
Census division. Corpus Christi
National Register reference number. 79003003 - 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Old St. Anthony's Catholic Church between 2006 and 2016, burning about 217 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
13 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MCGLOIN FIRE
7 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CO RD 44 & 1694
11 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E HWY 44 & CO RD 67
4 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VIOLET FIRE
16 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 April 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
24 March 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	600 BLK E AVE A

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this property

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Violet, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Violet	$10,000	Radio transmitter tower knocked down near Robstown.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Violet	-	Highway closures occurred due to high water along Highway 77 from Robstown to Calallen and along Interstate 37 from Calallen to Annaville.
September 2018	Flood	Violet	-	Public reported minor flooding on Avenue J in Robstown from Picker Lane to past Bosquez Street near Robstown High School.

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003003 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nueces County	All 16 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.