BlockFrom the record
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Blanco County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Blanco Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Fifth St., Live Oak St., Town Cr. and rear property lines W of Main St., Blanco, 78264
- When was it listed? July 1991
- Category. district
- Architectural style. revivalism
- National Register reference number. 91000890 - 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.
Storms near this property
44 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanco, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 2015 | Flash Flood | Blanco | 1 killed, $20,000,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM 1623 along the Blanco River. A 42 year old man died in his vehicle along the Blanco River near downtown Blanco. Flooding along the Blanco River in the town of Blanco was substantial. Water came up to the bottom of the Highway 281 bridge in Blanco. Water overtopped the Loop 163 bridge east of Blanco. The Blanco River overtopped County Road 165 and destroyed that bridge. Portions of the Blanco State Park were heavily damaged with cabins flooded. There were a total of 22 homes either destroyed or heavily damaged. Monetary losses were unavailable at the time of this writing but estimated to be more than several million dollars with losses to homes/structures and road infrastructure. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Blanco | 1 killed | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. At approximately 8:07 PM local time, Blanco County Fire/EMS responded to a call about a vehicle that had been swept away due to flood waters on the Blanco River just east of the City of Blanco. One passenger was found downstream 800 yards of where the vehicle went into the water. She was rescued successfully but a second passenger, a 74 year old woman, was found deceased about 60 yards from the vehicle at approximately 10:56 PM. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | $200,000 | Winds from severe thunderstorms blew down trees down and damaged power lines between Blanco and Johnson City. Power was out to both cities for several hours. The storms also caused damage to roofs in Johnson City, with considerable damage to the roof of the Blanco County Jail. |
| March 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | $30,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and took the roof off a building. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | $10,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 90 mph that tore part of the roof off a house north of Blanco. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Blanco | $5,000 | Hail up to golf ball-size hit Round Mountain for the second time that night. Golf ball-size hail was also reported in the City of Blanco. At 4:55 local time golf ball-size hail was reported in Blanco again. Several windows were broken out this time and several trees were damaged. High winds uprooted some trees. |
| March 1994 | Hail | Blanco | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Blanco | $3,000 | A tornado, rated F0, moved from 10 miles northeast of Blanco to 13 miles northeast of Blanco. It was spotted in open country and damage was limited to trees knocked over by the tornado. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail south of Blanco. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Blanco. |
| January 2020 | Hail | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Blanco. |
| January 2020 | Hail | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Blanco. This report was from MPING. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing RM 165 near Boardhouse Creek east of Blanco. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that damaged trees on the west side of Blanco. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Blanco | - | A thunderstorms produced quarter size hail north of Blanco. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Blanco. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph in Blanco. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down some large trees. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph by a Blanco County EMS employee. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that knocked down a tree limb and blocked a road. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Blanco | - | Quarter size hail was reported by the public in the city of Blanco. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Trainer Wuest Rd. at RR 1623, Crab Apple at RR 1888, and RR 165 at the bridge in Blanco all near the Blanco River. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | General 2 to 3 inch rains fell over Blanco, Gillespie, Kerr and Kendall Counties, with up to 4 inches between Blanco and Twin Sisters. FM32, FM165, and FM473 were closed due to high water. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Up to 3 inches of rain fell at Payton in the late morning, closing SH32 and FM165 due to high water. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Bands of showers and thunderstorms associated with the remains of Erin formed over the Hill Country in the early morning hours. One band developed southward into southeastern Blanco County before sunrise. It produced 3 to 4 inch rain totals that restarted flash flooding over the already saturated soils very quickly in the southeast part of the county. FM165, FM32, were FM473 reported to be closed due to high water into the mid morning. |
| April 2006 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Early evening thunderstorms spreading eastward from Gillespie County dropped general 1 to 2 inch rains over the central part of Blanco County. Highest totals were 3 inches between Blanco and Johnson City. Flash flooding closed FM1323 and FM2766 through much of the evening. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Blanco | - | Hail up to golf ball-size hit Round Mountain for the second time that night. Golf ball-size hail was also reported in the City of Blanco. At 4:55 local time golf ball-size hail was reported in Blanco again. Several windows were broken out this time and several trees were damaged. High winds uprooted some trees. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | Hail up to golf ball-size hit Round Mountain for the second time that night. Golf ball-size hail was also reported in the City of Blanco. At 4:55 local time golf ball-size hail was reported in Blanco again. Several windows were broken out this time and several trees were damaged. High winds uprooted some trees. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Blanco | - | HAM Radio operators reported 1.5 inch hail near RR 2721 and Highway 290, and in Johnson City. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
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 91000890 in Record Group 79. |
| Blanco County | All 4 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.
- 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.