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Photograph of Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church is a historic church located at 2833 Farm to Market Road 2672 in High Hill, Texas. The church, which was built in 1906, was designed by prominent Texas church architect Leo M.J.”

Wikipedia article Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. FM 2672, High Hill, 78956
  • When was it listed? June 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
  • Census division. Schulenburg
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • Architect. Leo M.J. Dielmann
  • National Register reference number. 83003136 - 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

47 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church between 1998 and 2013, burning about 266 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3

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
23 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH HILL
30 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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

6 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
Sengelmann Hall and City Meat Market Building2.8 miles2009
Schulenburg Cotton Compress2.8 miles1979
Bedstead Truss Bridge3.0 miles2013
East Navidad River Bridge4.6 miles2014
Simon Pytlovany House5.3 miles1975
Dubina Historic District5.6 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003136 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fayette CountyAll 24 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.