Roesler House

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Roesler House, in Austin County, Texas about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Nelsonville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Roesler House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Austin County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1892.

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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Nelsonville on TX 159, Nelsonville, 77418
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. building
Census division. Industry
When was it built? 1892
National Register reference number. 84001570 - 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

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Roesler House between 2009 and 2013, burning about 58 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID GIVEN
14 August 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ GLAZEAR
14 June 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ BRAVENEC
16 February 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCHROEDER RD GRASS FIRE
5 November 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE (INDUSTRY VFD)
1 November 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD NELSONVILLE
28 October 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD NELSONVILLE
17 October 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ BURLESON

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this property

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelsonville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 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
May 2021	Flash Flood	Nelsonville	-	FM 2754 near Bleiberville was closed due to flooodwaters making the roadway impassable.
May 2021	Flash Flood	Nelsonville	-	FM 2754 near East Mill Creek was impassable due to floodwaters covering the roadway, resulting in the closure of the road.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Nelsonville	-	Large trees were knocked down and tree limbs were snapped near Shupak Road.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
	Wesley Brethren Church	7.2 miles	1979
	Witte-Schmid House	7.6 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Austin 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.