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Photograph of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic church on FM 1383 in Ammannsville, Texas. It was built in 1917 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville, Texas), 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 1383, Ammansville, 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. John Bujnoch
  • National Register reference number. 83003137 - 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

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 248 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 burning16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 24
7 August 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLMAN COMPLEX
18 August 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6120 HWY 77 N
7 July 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKREISCHE BLUFF

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church: 1 producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Holman Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working 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
Dubina Historic District4.2 miles2003
Simon Pytlovany House5.3 miles1975
Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church6.3 miles1983
Henry L. Kreische Brewery and House7.1 miles1975
Mier Expedition and Dawson's Men Monument and Tomb7.1 miles2019
East Navidad River Bridge7.2 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003137 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.
  • 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.