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One of 82 National Register listings published here for Galveston County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Col. Hugh B. and Helen Moore House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Moore, Col. Hugh B. and Helen, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 8 Ninth Ave., N., Texas City, 77590
- When was it listed? October 1994
- Category. building
- Census division. Texas City-League City
- Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
- National Register reference number. 94001241 - 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
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Col. Hugh B. and Helen Moore House in 2011, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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 | 3 |
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 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3042 CEDAR |
| 16 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 412 AVE D |
| 2 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3800 FM 1765 FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Col. Hugh B. and Helen Moore House: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Amoco Texas Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Gulf Chemical and Metallureical Co | Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite | Producer |
Storms near this property
40 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Texas City, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 11 funnel cloud, 7 hail, 5 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Lightning | Texas City | $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Texas City | $150,000 | Streets flooded with 2-3 feet of water, 50 homes and businesses flooded. |
| July 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Texas City | $100,000 | Tornado, which began as waterspout over Galveston Bay, tracked across northern part of Texas City. Tornado struck Chateau Jonon Apartments at 2100 blk. of 25th Ave. north (near Loop 197 and Goddard Park), tearing roof off one building and damaging roofs on several others. Widespread trees and power lines also reported down in Texas City. |
| August 2001 | Flash Flood | Texas City | $80,000 | Homes flooded on Edwards Street; high water on Palmer Highway. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Texas City | $75,000 | Tornado touched down near the intersection of SH 348 and Loop 197 in Texas City. Several businesses were damaged at the initial touchdown. The tornado moved east northeast and eventually crossed the Texas City dike where numerous power poles were knocked down. The tornado continued past the dike and moved into Galveston Bay as a waterspout. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | $35,000 | Numerous trees down and a light pole down on a parked SUV. |
| March 2007 | Lightning | Texas City | $30,000 | Lightning strike started a fire that caused moderate damage to a home. |
| August 2001 | Flash Flood | Texas City | $30,000 | Flooding on Amburn Road and on Ninth Avenue; high water at College of the Mainland. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Texas City | $25,000 | Brief tornado touchdown on Texas Ave. in Texas City. Damage to a tin/metal structure reported. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | $20,000 | Trees down throughout the city. Gas station canopy at Logan & Palmer St. blown over. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Texas City | $16,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Texas City | $15,000 | Quarter size hail. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Texas City | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | $11,000 | There was some roof damage to a Texas City business. |
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Texas City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | $5,500 | Large tree limbs and some fencing were blown down. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 1997 | Hail | Texas City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Texas City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | $3,000 | Powerpole blown down. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Texas City | $1,000 | Public call that reported three-quarters inch hail in Texas City. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Texas City | $1,000 | Public call that reported 3/4 inch hail in Texas City. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | - | Mesonet station XLEV Levee measured a 69 mph wind gust. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | - | Wind gust occurred at the Brigantine Cay Court mesonet site. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | A funnel cloud was sighted. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor structure damage. Winds rolled over an exposed, non-anchored mobile trailer off of Dike Drive. |
| September 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near Blocker Middle School. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | A funnel cloud was sighted south of Texas City. |
| June 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | A funnel cloud was sighted over Texas City. |
| March 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | A funnel cloud was sighted in Texas City. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | Funnel cloud reported over Texas City. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Texas City | - | Numerous reports of flooding through the towns of Texas City and La Marque. |
| July 1999 | Waterspout | Texas City | - | Large waterspout over western Galveston Bay near Texas City. |
| June 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Texas City | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frank B. Davison House | 0.7 miles | 1976 |
 | The Settlement Historic District | 4.5 miles | 2010 |
 | Galveston Causeway | 6.7 miles | 1976 |
 | Stringfellow Orchards | 7.5 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94001241 in Record Group 79. |
| Galveston County | All 82 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.