Chappell Hill Public School and Chappell Hill Female College Bell

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Chappell Hill Public School is a historic school on Poplar Street in Chappell Hill, Texas. The old bell from Chappell Hill Female College, which was at this location until 1912, is preserved on the property.”
Wikipedia article Chappell Hill Public School and Chappell Hill Female College Bell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Poplar St., Chappell Hill, 77426
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Chappell Hill MRA
Census division. Washington-Chappell Hill
National Register reference number. 85000345 - 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

140 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Chappell Hill Public School and Chappell Hill Female College Bell between 2009 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 3 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	93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHAPPEL HILL SPOT FIRE
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRAZOS RIVER LANE
30 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6500 HWY 290 GRASS FIRE
16 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	EVA RD. FIRE
8 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

18 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chappell Hill, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 3 flash flood, 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
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	$30,000	Home roof and carport damage along with a severely damaged pool house in the Bluebonnet Subdivision.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	$20,000	Strong winds damaged the roof of two separate homes, destroyed a barn and also damaged a television tower.
October 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	$17,000	Extensive house, barn, fence, and tree damage.
September 2002	Flash Flood	Chappell Hill	$10,000	Water covering FM 1371 near Chappell Hill.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Chappell Hill	$5,000	Eight county roads were closed due to high water. FM Road 1155 was closed due to flooding between FM Road 2193 and Chappell Hill.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree that blocked a county road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	$900	A large tree was downed.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	-	Trees were downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts east of Brenham.
March 2015	Heavy Rain	Chappell Hill	-	High water was observed near the intersection of FM 1155 and South Meyersville Road.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees along FM 1371.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell Hill	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees in Chappell Hill.
August 2015	Funnel Cloud	Chappell Hill	-	A funnel cloud was reported south of the Chappell Hill area near Nicholson Lake Road.
November 2014	Funnel Cloud	Chappell Hill	-	A funnel cloud was observed near the intersection of Gibb Creek Road and Nicholson Lake Road.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Chappell Hill	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding on Old Chappell Hill Road just west of the town of Chappell Hill.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Chappell Hill	-	No damage.
September 2003	Funnel Cloud	Chappell Hill	-	Funnel cloud in Chappell Hill near Brenham off Hwy 290.
August 2004	Funnel Cloud	Chappell Hill	-	no account filed
July 2001	Funnel Cloud	Chappell Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
E. King Felder House	under 500 feet	1985
Chappell Hill Circulating Library	0.2 miles	1985
William S. Rogers House	0.2 miles	1985
Main Street Historic District	0.4 miles	1985
Stage Coach Inn	0.4 miles	1976
John Sterling Smith Jr. House	0.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000345 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 71 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.