BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Medina County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Saathoff House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- Address. Quihi-Stormhill Rd., Quihi, 78861
- When was it listed? September 1982
- Category. building
- Census division. Hondo
- National Register reference number. 82004515 - 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
14 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Saathoff House between 2006 and 2019, burning about 818 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US 90 E HONDO |
| 7 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4617 |
| 23 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 19 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 467 |
| 17 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 366 |
| 7 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1991 US90W |
| 9 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saathoff House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidel Guerra Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rosita Gravel Guerra Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quihi, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Quihi | $50,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flooding which damaged several homes. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Quihi | - | A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Quihi. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Quihi | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which flooded and closed SH 173 due to high water near Verde Creek. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Quihi | - | Heavy rain caused flooding which closed FM 2676 along with numerous low water crossings along State Highway 173 and County Road 462. |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| de Montel, Charles, House | 6.7 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004515 in Record Group 79. |
| Medina 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.
- 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.