BlockFrom the record
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Hidalgo County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Casa de Palmas
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 101 N. Main St., McAllen, 78501
- When was it listed? April 2003
- Category. building
- Census division. McAllen-Pharr
- Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 03000276 - 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
46 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Casa de Palmas between 2002 and 2017, burning about 327 acres in total. None 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE CALL |
| 27 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11-740 |
| 26 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ILLEGAL BURN |
| 21 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge | SANTA ANA MEXICO 1 |
| 26 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | PLAZA HOTEL |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | M and J Nelson Building | 0.2 miles | 2008 |
| Cine El Rey | 0.3 miles | 2002 | |
 | Mary S. and Gordon Griffin House | 0.4 miles | 2014 |
 | Sam and Marjorie Miller House | 0.4 miles | 1997 |
 | Valley Fruit Company | 3.3 miles | 2011 |
| Louisiana-Rio Grande Canal Company Irrigation System | 3.9 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000276 in Record Group 79. |
| Hidalgo County | All 23 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.