Witte-Schmid House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Austin County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Witte--Schmid House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off Schoenau, near jct. with Eckermann, Shelby, 78940
When was it listed? December 1997
Category. building
Census division. Industry
National Register reference number. 97001531 - 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Witte-Schmid House between 2000 and 2013, burning about 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
28 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 81
20 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 954 FIRE
16 February 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCHROEDER RD GRASS FIRE
2 December 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelby, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2009: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Shelby	$15,000	Trees down.
April 2009	Funnel Cloud	Shelby	-	A brief funnel cloud was sighted near Shelby.
March 1995	Hail	Shelby	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
	Wesley Brethren Church	5.8 miles	1979
	Roesler House	7.6 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001531 in Record Group 79.
Austin County	All 9 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.