Sons of San Patricio Monument

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Sons of San Patricio Monument, in San Patricio, Texas, was erected in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.”
Wikipedia article Sons of San Patricio Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for San Patricio County · listed in 2018 · category: Object · built in 1937, by Page.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. Rd. 1441 (21), Old San Patricio Cemetery, San Patricio, 78368
When was it listed? April 2018
Category. object
Also known as. Monuments and Buildings of the Texas Centennial MPS
Census division. Mathis
When was it built? 1937
Architect. Page
National Register reference number. 100002353 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Sons of San Patricio Monument between 2005 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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
2 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS I37 MM32 SB
5 August 2015	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	52
31 August 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 360
3 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	51
15 August 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OAK LANE
1 August 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	50
4 July 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JEFF MYERS
3 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1540&360

Every fire recorded in San Patricio County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Patricio, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2016	Hail	San Patricio	$150,000	Photo sent by public to local media showed tennis ball sized hail occurred in the community of San Patricio.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	San Patricio	-	An EF-0 tornado touched down near the town of Old San Patricio. A NWS survey team estimated winds fo 65-75 mph. The tornado had a path width of 25-50 yards and a path length of just over a half mile. Several large tree limbs were snapped along the path, and a couple of older trees were completely knocked over. Most of the damage was near the corner of Nopal Street and County Road 1664.
May 2006	Hail	San Patricio	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	San Patricio	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Patricio 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
San Patricio de Hibernia Monument	0.9 miles	2018
James McGloin Homestead	2.0 miles	1971
James McGloin Homestead (Boundary Increase)	2.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002353 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Patricio County	All 6 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.
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.