BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Falls County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Westphalia Rural Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Co. Rt. 383, Pond Cr., Co. Rts. 377, 368, 372, 373, and the Falls Co. western boundary line, Westphalia, 76656
- When was it listed? May 1996
- Category. district
- Census division. Lott
- Architectural style. American Craftsman
- National Register reference number. 96000524 - 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
27 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Westphalia Rural Historic District between 2005 and 2017, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIKES FIRE |
| 15 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KETTERMAN |
| 30 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 53 FIRE |
| 30 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DUMP GROUND FIRE |
| 22 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HERING JFIRE |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westphalia, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westphalia | $400,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused damage to a large, new wood and metal airplane hanger located southwest of Lott. Many of the metal panels were removed from the barn and part of the barn collapsed. Many of the vintage internal contents were damaged. Wind driven hail also cracked and shattered windows and windshields, but no hail size could be obtained. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westphalia | $75,000 | A radio tower was snapped in half. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westphalia | $50,000 | Wind damage to eight homes. |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Westphalia | $30,000 | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westphalia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Westphalia | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Westphalia | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Westphalia | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westphalia | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Westphalia | - | 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 96000524 in Record Group 79. |
| Falls County | All 2 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.