Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace is a historic Roman Catholic church on FM 340 in Sweet Home, Texas. It is dedicated to Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace.”
Wikipedia article Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lavaca 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 340, Sweet Home, 77964
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
Census division. Yoakum
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 83003149 - 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

18 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace between 2004 and 2017, burning about 52 acres in total. 1 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BROWN FIRE
20 July 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 293
12 April 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 95D
19 March 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 77A
10 March 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 395
6 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 February 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLUNDELL FIRE

Every fire recorded in Lavaca County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweet Home, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sweet Home	$50,000	Severe thunderstorm winds produce a downburst estimated at 60 knots that blew down power lines near Sweet Home.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Sweet Home	$50,000	Trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds in Sweet Home. Power lines and trees were downed in Halletsville.
September 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Sweet Home	$5,000	A small EF-0 tornado was seen on video from a school campus in Sweet Home. The survey concluded that the small tornado began just down the road from the school on FM 531 and then traveled northwest hitting the school playground area at approximately 5:02 PM. The video showed the small tornado moving through the playground damaging the playground and the school gymnasium door. The tornado then moved northwest behind the school and into an open field behind a nearby church. The tornado crossed County Road 378 and produced some minor tree damage before dissipating near FM 318. Special thanks go out to Sweet Home Independent School District and KSAT-12 TV in San Antonio for providing information and video of this tornado event.
April 2009	Heavy Rain	Sweet Home	-	A CoCoRaHS observer reported 4.27 inches of rain in five hours north of Yoakum. There was also some minor flooding.
March 2007	Flash Flood	Sweet Home	-	Between 3 and 5 inches of rain fell in the afternoon and evening over northwestern Lavaca County. Numerous rural roads were closed due to flooding, including FM530.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Sweet Home	-	Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 3 inch rain amounts in western Lavaca County with up to 6 inches near Hallettsville. FM111, FM530, and FM1447 were closed due to flash flooding. Many roads in Hallettsville were reported to be under water with several vehicles washed off the roads.
March 2006	Flash Flood	Sweet Home	-	Thunderstorms formed along a slow-moving cold front in the mid afternoon as it crossed Lavaca County. The storms produced between 1 and 2 inches per hour, with accumulations of up to 4 inches southeast of Sweet Home near where FM531 intersects US77. The Sheriff's Department reported that FM531 was closed due to flash flooding in the area of US77 through the early evening.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Sweet Home	-	Afternoon thunderstorms produced a general 1 to 2 inch rainfall over western Lavaca County. Highest totals were near 4 inches northeast of Hallettsville. Flash flooding closed FM531 and FM532 through the late afternoon.

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.

Listed places nearby

2 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
	Baker House	5.7 miles	1998
	Yoakum Commercial Historic District	6.2 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003149 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.