Castolon, Texas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Castolon Historic Districtlisted 1974 · 0.2 miles away

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 16 shown

• Castolon, Alvino House, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Castolon, Enlisted Men's Barracks-Store, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 14 photographs
• Castolon, Garlick House, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Castolon, Granary & Tack Shed, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Castolon, Latrine, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Castolon, Magdelena House, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Castolon, Noncommissioned Officers' Quarters, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Castolon, Officers' Quarters, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Castolon, Old Castolon Residence, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Castolon, Old Castolon Shed, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Castolon, Old Castolon Store, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Castolon, Recreation Building, Route 5, Castolonfederal building survey, 8 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Brewster County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1903 USGS Terlingua quadrangle1:125000
• 1904 USGS Terlingua quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Castolon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Castolon between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,142 acres in total. 4 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Santa Elena Crossing
• Buenos Aires
• Lunas
• Terlingua Abaja
• Sierra Chino

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

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

Every working recorded in Brewster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castolon in 31 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 6 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Brewster County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379515. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.