BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Atascosa County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Korus Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- Address. US-281 at Farm-to-Market Rd. 536, Leming, 78064
- When was it listed? July 1998
- Category. building
- Census division. Pleasanton
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 98000876 - 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
264 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Korus Farmstead between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,955 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 | 133 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BIG OAK FIRE |
| 5 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KASEY BARTEX |
| 4 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ADAMS RD 2 |
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ED #1 |
| 23 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUPE GONZALES #2 |
| 20 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 14 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Korus Farmstead: 5 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Espey Silica Sand Co A1 Pit and Plt | Silica | Producer | ||
| Lehr Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand | |
| Osburn Pit & Plant | Silica | Producer | ||
| Brotze Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Clay | |
| Stone Pit | Clay | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Stone Pit | Clay | Unknown |
Storms near this property
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leming, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leming | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that blew down numerous tree limbs and damaged some homes. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Leming | - | A thunderstorm produced hail up to the size of quarters south of Leming. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Leming | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded low water crossings closing FM 536 north of Pleasanton as well as FM 1784 near Verdi. |
| April 2010 | Flash Flood | Leming | - | Heavy rain caused flooding which closed several roads in Atascosa county. FM 2146 was closed between FM 476 and Highway 173. FM 1470 was closed near Galvan Creek. FM 1333 was closed where it crossed the Atascosa River. FM 536 was closed between US 281 and IH 37. FM 140 was closed between US 281A and Texas Highway 16. |
| April 2010 | Flash Flood | Leming | - | Heavy rain caused flooding which closed FM 536 from Highway 281 to IH37. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Leming | - | Thunderstorms over Bexar, Atascosa, Wilson, and Guadalupe Counties produced general 2 to 3 inch rain totals with up to 5 inches near Pleasanton and just northwest of Fashing. FM537, FM1333, and FM1470 were closed due to high water. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Leming | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Leming | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Leming | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Leming | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Leming | - | 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 98000876 in Record Group 79. |
| Atascosa County | All 3 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.