Dr. Joseph M. and Sarah Pound Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Pound Farmstead, also known as the Dr. Pound Pioneer Farmstead, is a historic farm located in Hays County, Texas United States.”
Wikipedia article Dr. Joseph M. and Sarah Pound Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Hays County · listed in 1995 · 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 4 buildingss, 4 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pound, Dr. Joseph M. and Sarah, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ranch Rd. 12 N., Dripping Springs, 78620
When was it listed? July 1995
Category. building
Census division. Dripping Springs-Wimberley
National Register reference number. 95000929 - 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

112 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Joseph M. and Sarah Pound Farmstead between 2005 and 2017, burning about 529 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUNSON LANE
5 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MT. GAINOR
30 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Hays County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dripping Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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
March 1993	Hail	Dripping Springs	-	Dime-size hail was reported by a weather observer, just north of Dripping Springs.

Every storm recorded in Hays 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
	Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District	0.7 miles	2013
	Camp Ben McCulloch	6.3 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000929 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hays County	All 57 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.