John Howland Wood House

Built in 1875 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The John Howland Wood House is a historic mansion in Bayside, Texas. It was built in 1875, and it was a hotel for five decades.”
Wikipedia article John Howland Wood House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Refugio County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1875, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Wood, John Howland, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1 Copano Bay St., Bayside, 78340
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Census division. Woodsboro
When was it built? 1875
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83003811 - 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

22 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of John Howland Wood House between 2008 and 2019, burning about 250 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEVERS FIRE
30 August 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DELANEY/COPANO BAY DR.
21 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	136 & 1360
5 July 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POST FIREWORKS
10 July 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GREY FIRE
1 July 2008	Natural	175 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 June 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FRANKE/FM 2511
24 June 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CLUB HOUSE/GIN RD.

Every fire recorded in Refugio County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayside, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021	Flash Flood	Bayside	-	FM 629 from FM 136 to FM 3037 was closed due to high water. FM 2511 from FM 136 to FM 1360 was closed due to high water.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Bayside	-	Farm to Market Road 2511 4 miles north of Bayside was closed due to flash flooding.
April 2012	Heavy Rain	Bayside	-	Observer recorded 15 inches of rainfall just southwest of Bayside.
July 2012	Funnel Cloud	Bayside	-	Refugio County Sheriffs Office reported a funnel cloud northeast of Bayside.
June 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Bayside	-	Aransas County law enforcement received several reports of a brief tornado touchdown over open county near Mission Bay, north-northeast of Bayside. This tornado occurred in the outer rainbands of Hurricane Alex.
March 2000	Heavy Rain	Bayside	-	Bayside reveived 12 inches of rain in six hours.
March 2000	Flash Flood	Bayside	-	Twelve inches of rain from a stationary thunderstorm caused FM 2678 to be closed for several hours.
May 1997	Hail	Bayside	-	Spotter report of golfball sized hail.
May 2006	Hail	Bayside	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bayside	-	no account filed
October 1998	Flash Flood	Bayside	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Refugio 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 83003811 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Refugio County	All 5 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.