Zapp Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 1983 · 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. Fayette and Washington Sts., Fayetteville, 78940
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Census division. Fayetteville
National Register reference number. 83003139 - 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

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Zapp Building between 1998 and 2011, burning about 329 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	7
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	96 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUNES MILL ROAD
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 129
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 29
23 August 2010	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SANDY LANE
2 August 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 28
8 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CUMMINS STEIN RD
11 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

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 Zapp Building: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Thorstenberg Baca Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayetteville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayetteville	$100,000	Severe thunderstorms moving southward through eastern Fayette County produced damaging winds that blew down trees and power lines from Fayetteville to Schulenburg. Power was lost to nearly 1400 persons for several hours as a result of the storm. One man pumping gas at Schulenburg narrowly avoided injury when winds detached the roof from a store and it landed beside him.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayetteville	$20,000	Trees were blown down by severe winds, blocking FM955 for nearly 1 hour.
November 2014	Flash Flood	Fayetteville	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending six inches of water over FM2503 at Brushy Creek leaving ten motorists stranded in the water.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Fayetteville	-	Scattered thunderstorms produced a general 3 to 4 inch rainfall in eastern Fayette County, which resulted in the closing of SH159, SH237, FM1291, FM955, and FM2714.

Every storm 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fayetteville Historic District	0.2 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003139 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fayette County	All 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.
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.