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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 2 National Register listings published here for Deaf Smith County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 in Texas MPS
Census division. Hereford West
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 06001258 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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/undetermined	9
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	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 August 2016	Natural	45 acres	Las Vegas District	SANCHEZ
13 August 2010	Natural	101 acres	Las Vegas District	FOOTE
5 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BLOWOUT
3 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3MM I40 EB
29 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	780 acres	Las Vegas District	ODEN
28 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE 5MM
22 June 2017	Natural	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JARVIS
22 June 2017	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRIDWILL-JUNE

Every fire recorded in Deaf Smith 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Deaf Smith 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001258 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Deaf Smith County	All 2 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.