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Glenrio Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Glenrio, formerly Rock Island, is an unincorporated community in both Deaf Smith County, Texas, and Quay County, New Mexico, United States. Route 66, the ghost town sits on the Texas-New Mexico state line.”

Wikipedia article Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Quay County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. TX loop 504/NM 1578, Glenrio
  • When was it listed? January 2007
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
  • Architectural style. American Craftsman
  • National Register reference number. 06001259 - 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Glenrio Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,318 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2016Natural45 acresLas Vegas DistrictSANCHEZ
13 August 2010Natural101 acresLas Vegas DistrictFOOTE
5 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBLOWOUT
3 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3MM I40 EB
29 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined780 acresLas Vegas DistrictODEN
28 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 5MM
22 June 2017Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJARVIS
22 June 2017Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRIDWILL-JUNE

Every fire recorded in Quay County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glenrio Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Quay 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

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Locally Maintained Route 66-Glenrio to San Jon7.0 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Quay CountyAll 13 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.