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Hotel Limpia

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jeff Davis County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 101 Memorial Square, Fort Davis, 79734
  • When was it listed? March 2025
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fort Davis
  • National Register reference number. 100011474 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Limpia between 1994 and 2019, burning about 6,824 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined24
Natural18
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPOT FIRES
25 September 2015Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTNING TREE FIRE
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTONWOOD III
8 August 2010Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPROUL FIRE
21 August 2009Natural250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE PARK AREA
20 August 2009Natural1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST KEESEY CANYON FIRE
5 July 2018Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOLAR PUMP FIRE
4 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Jeff Davis County Courthouseunder 500 feet2002
Henry M. and Annie V. Trueheart House0.5 miles1996
Grierson-Sproul House0.7 miles1982
Fort Davis, Post Hospital0.7 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100011474 in Record Group 79.
Jeff Davis CountyAll 5 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.