Kinney County, Texas

33 topographic sheets cover 10 settlements here, and 2 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

2 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Texas within the United States

Kinney County within Texas

Explore by year From 1879 To 1884

What the record shows

107 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
2 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 1 building and 1 district.
1 of the 2 listings was added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 populated places in this county; 10 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph	Property	Type	Listed	Reference
	1911 Kinney County Courthouse	building	2004	04000230
	Fort Clark Historic District	district	1979	79002990

Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps

Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.

Land ownership map, 1879 - Map of Kinney County — Land ownership map (1879) - Map of Kinney County. Library of Congress.

Land ownership map, 1884 - Map of Kinney County, Texas — Land ownership map (1884) - Map of Kinney County, Texas. Library of Congress.

The county from the air

44 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 1,349 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 44 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1937-11-24, scale 1:20000 — 1937-11-24, scale 1:20000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1947-08-07, scale 1:20000 — 1947-08-07, scale 1:20000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-04-25, scale 1:46000 — 1950-04-25, scale 1:46000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-05-04, scale 1:46000 — 1950-05-04, scale 1:46000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-04-24, scale 1:69000 — 1953-04-24, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-04-25, scale 1:69000 — 1953-04-25, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1957-12-04, scale 1:63996 — 1957-12-04, scale 1:63996. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-03-23, scale 1:27600 — 1971-03-23, scale 1:27600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-09-11, scale 1:88982 — 1972-09-11, scale 1:88982. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-09-11, scale 1:89214 — 1972-09-11, scale 1:89214. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-12-21, scale 1:22600 — 1972-12-21, scale 1:22600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-01-26, scale 1:30000 — 1973-01-26, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1974-02-09, scale 1:22400 — 1974-02-09, scale 1:22400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-01-31, scale 1:80000 — 1976-01-31, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1980-02-03, scale 1:80000 — 1980-02-03, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

20 stations, 2 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

BRACKETTVILLE 1897 to 2020, hottest 52.8 C, coldest -15.6 C
BRACKETTVILLE 22 N 1978 to 2022, hottest 42.8 C, coldest -13.9 C
CLOSED 2008 to 2013
BRACKETTVILLE 0.1 NE 2008 to 2026
BRACKETTVILLE 2.0 W 2008 to 2026
CLOSED 2008 to 2009
BRACKETTVILLE 5.8 ESE 2008 to 2013
BRACKETTVILLE 2.0 W 2008 to 2023
CLOSED 2008 to 2013
CLOSED 2008 to 2009
CLOSED 2008 to 2012
CLOSED 2008 to 2011
SPOFFORD 0.1 W 2009 to 2013
BRACKETTVILLE 5.1 W 2009 to 2023
CLOSED 2010 to 2012
BRACKETTVILLE 13.8 W 2011 to 2025
BRACKETTVILLE 0.1 ESE 2012 to 2013
BRACKETTVILLE 2.0 SSW 2013 to 2016
BRACKETTVILLE 2.1 S 2018 to 2020
BRACKETTVILLE 1.8 SSW 2022 to 2026

W Nueces Rv nr Brackettville, TX 1939 to 2026
Las Moras Spgs Dws of pool at Brackettville,TX 2014 to 2026

The 1950 census, district by district

9 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

136-1Justice Precinct 1: Brackettville city: Brackettville city - That part Bounded by City limits; City limits; City limits; Gay, Wolf, Las Moras Slough
136-2Justice Precinct 1: Brackettville city - That part Bounded by Las Moras Slough, Wolf; Gay; City limits; City limits
136-3Justice Precinct 1 - That part outside Brackettville city
136-4Justice Precinct 2
136-5Justice Precinct 3
136-6Justice Precinct 4: Spofford city
136-7Justice Precinct 4 - That part outside Spofford city
136-8Justice Precinct 5
136-9Justice Precinct 6

Wildfire, 2001 to 2019

43 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 43 of them, burning about 11,955 acres. 2 started naturally and 2 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 February 2008	Debris and open burning	3,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 June 2008	Debris and open burning	2,538 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOLMES
5 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 March 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	750 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIELDS RANCH
10 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 July 2006	Natural	448 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CEDAR CREEK KINNEY COUNTY
3 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 February 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1956 to 2026

60 of 211 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 211 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 2 injuries and about $9,107,050 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Hail	91
Flash Flood	61
Thunderstorm Wind	45
Tornado	14

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2002	Hail	Countywide	2 hurt, $100,000	As the supercell thunderstorm moved eastward from Val Verde County into Kinney County, hail continued to be reported. However, it was initially less widespread than it had been in Val Verde County. Stones at times were reported to be as large as tennis balls and were propelled by winds near 50 mph. Widespread damage to windows of cars and buildings was indicated across the town of Brackettville. The storm was somewhat unusual in that the large hail fell first, with the small hail following later. Two persons received minor injuries in Brackettville when they were struck by hail.
April 1993	Hail	Brackettville	$5,000,000	As the thunderstorm moved out of Val Verde County and into Kinney County it continued to produce large hail. The Department of Public Safety reported baseball-size hail in Brackettville. Local insurance adjusters reported close to $1 million in damage. Some 200 mobile homes, 250 vehicles and 200 buildings were damaged between Fort Clark Springs and Brackettville.
May 1989	Tornado (F4)	not stated	$2,500,000	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$270,000	no account filed
May 1982	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$250,000	no account filed
June 1970	Tornado (F3)	not stated	$250,000	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$100,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 to 80 mph that knocked down 10 power poles in Brackettville.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Brackettville	$100,000	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. Some people in Brackettville and Fort Clark were evacuated from their homes due to flooding. A CoCoRAHS observer five miles west of Brackettville reported 11.86 inches of rain.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide	$100,000	High winds estimated at 50 to 60 knots, caused widespread minor damage to buildings and vehicles across much of Kinney County.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$50,000	As the east-west oriented line of thunderstorms associated with the cold front moved southward through Kinney County, it produced a downburst that damaged the roofs of homes in Fort Clark Springs in the south part of Brackettville.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$50,000	Severe thunderstorm winds spread across much of the the town, knocking down trees and blowing down numerous tree limbs.
October 2002	Flash Flood	Countywide	$50,000	Scattered to numerous thunderstorms striking before midnight caused flash flooding over most county roads, with the exception of U.S. 90, according to the Kinney County Sheriff's Department. Average rain amounts across the county were 1 to 2 inches, with widespread 4 inch amounts and isolated totals to 8 inches in the southwest corner of the county.
October 2002	Flash Flood	Countywide	$40,000	The showers and thunderstorms that had formed ahead of the upper level disturbance covered most of Kinney County, producing a general rainfall of 1 to 2 inches and isolated totals to 4 inches. Flash flooding developed in the early morning hours and ended just after sunrise. Minor damage was reported to county roads and bridges.
May 2001	Hail	Brackettville	$30,000	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Countywide	$30,000	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$20,000	Severe thunderstorm winds knock down several trees in the Brackettville area.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$20,000	The Sheriff's Department in Kinney County reported trees and power li nes blown down by high winds. The wind gusts were estimated at well over 50 knots.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$20,000	Department of Public Safety personnel reported wind damage to trees and power lines with gusts estimated at well over 50 knots.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$20,000	Severe winds blew down power poles.
June 2000	Flash Flood	Countywide	$20,000	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Countywide	$20,000	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Brackettville	$10,000	A thunderstorm produced hail from dime to hen egg size near Brackettville which caused damage to some cars and roof shingles.
May 2001	Flash Flood	West Portion	$10,000	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$5,000	Numerous cable and power lines were blown down by high winds.
May 1994	Hail	Countywide	$5,000	Large hail, with diameters up to 4.5 inches fell across Kinney County. The largest hail was 4.5 inches at Brackettville, although large hail was indicated across the county. Most of the damage was confined to windows of homes and vehicles.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Clark Springs	$5,000	Winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph blew down several trees.
March 1993	Hail	Brackettville	$5,000	As the thunderstorms moved out of Val Verde County into Kinney County they continued to produce large hail. The sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail 20 miles north of Brackettville. One-inch-hail was later reported just north of Brackettville.
March 1993	Hail	Brackettville	$5,000	As the thunderstorms moved out of Val Verde County into Kinney County they continued to produce large hail. The sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail 20 miles north of Brackettville. One-inch-hail was later reported just north of Brackettville.
August 1998	Flash Flood	West Portion	$5,000	no account filed
October 2003	Flash Flood	Countywide	$3,000	The showers and thunderstorms that developed first in Val Verde County re-intensified as they moved across Kinney County. The storms produced general 1 to 2 inch totals with isolated amounts to 4 inches near the Kinney-Maverick County line. Numerous roads were closed over the county from noon until past midnight. Minor damage was reported to roads.
November 2001	Flash Flood	Countywide	$3,000	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Countywide	$3,000	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Countywide	$3,000	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Countywide	$3,000	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville Arpt	$1,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that damaged a trampoline.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brackettville	$1,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down a large tree limb in Fort Clark Springs.
April 1994	Tornado (F0)	Ft Clark Springs	$50	A small tornado was spotted as it lowered slowly from the base of a thunderstorm near Fort Clark Springs. It touched down very briefly, then dissipated. No significant damage was indicated.
March 2026	Tornado (EFU)	Standart	-	A brief tornado occurred over open country north of US-90 as observed and photographed by storm spotters along US-90. The tornado appears to have remained over open country with no damage reported. With no apparent damage, we could not determine a path length or width.
March 2026	Hail	Brackettville	-	Texas Parks and Wildlife reported quarter sized hail at Kickapoo Cavern State Park.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Brackettville	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. There was 5-6 feet of water over FM 334 near Ox Ranch.
May 2025	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Alamo Village.
May 2025	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail in Alamo Village.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Spofford	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in county including RM 481, RM 1572, and RM 334.
February 2024	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced hail up to half dollar size at Fort Clark Springs in Brackettville. A broadcast media partner relayed a video of the hail storm.
May 2024	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Brackettville.
June 2023	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Brackettville.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Spofford	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 68 mph by the ASOS at the Laughlin AFB Auxiliary field near Spofford.
May 2022	Hail	Spofford	-	A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail near Spofford.
May 2022	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in Brackettville.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Brackettville	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding in rural Kinney County. A trained storm spotter reported 2 to 2.5 feet of fast-moving water through a low water crossing on FM 334 at Live Oak Creek.
April 2021	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Brackettville.
April 2021	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter to half dollar sized hail in Brackettville.
April 2021	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Brackettville.
April 2021	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Brackettville.
April 2021	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail on the west side of Brackettville.
May 2020	Hail	Standart	-	A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail along RM2523 south of Carta Valley.
April 2020	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Brackettville.
April 2020	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced softball size hail in Brackettville. This report was from a picture on social media.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Standart	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 2523 north of FM 3008.
April 2019	Hail	Brackettville	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter to silver dollar size hail in Brackettville.

Mines and quarries

2 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 2 workings inside this county. None of them still produces: all are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Barium-Barite	1
Nitrogen-Nitrates	1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Spofford Occurrence	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Barite
	Webb Cave Mine	Nitrogen-Nitrates	Past Producer

Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Alamo Village

Brackettville census division · 78832 · Pinto Mountain quadrangle

11 sheets, 1896 to 1986
Amanda

Brackettville census division · Mud Creek South quadrangle

9 sheets, 1941 to 1986
Anacacho

Brackettville census division · 78832 · On East Fork Elm Creek · Anacacho quadrangle

11 sheets, 1896 to 1986
Brackettville

Brackettville census division · 78832 · Brackettville quadrangle

11 sheets, 1896 to 1986
Fort Clark Springs

Brackettville census division · 78832 · Brackettville quadrangle

11 sheets, 1896 to 1986
Lost Creek Place

Brackettville census division · 78832 · Bull Waterhole quadrangle

13 sheets, 1893 to 1985
Odlaw

Brackettville census division · 78832 · Odlaw quadrangle

12 sheets, 1896 to 1986
Pinto

Brackettville census division · 78832 · On Perdido Creek · Standart quadrangle

9 sheets, 1941 to 1986
Spofford

Brackettville census division · 78832 · Spofford quadrangle

11 sheets, 1896 to 1986
Standart

Brackettville census division · 78832 · Standart quadrangle

9 sheets, 1941 to 1986

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
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.