Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lavaca 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. FM 957, Moravia, 78956
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
Census division. Moulton
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 83003148 - 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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church between 2005 and 2011, burning about 36 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 burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AIDE MOULTON
13 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SVETLIK GF
5 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 April 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 April 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRYAN SCITT
7 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Lavaca County

Storms near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moravia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2012: 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
March 2012	Flash Flood	Moravia	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding of low water crossings closing FM957 north of Highway 77 out of Hallettsville.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Moravia	-	In extreme northern Lavaca County, thunderstorms produced up to 4 inches of rain between Moravia and Hackberry. The resulting flash flooding closed FM957 near Moravia and FM532 near Hackberry.

Every storm recorded in Lavaca 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 83003148 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lavaca 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.
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.