Monte Verdi Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Monte Verdi Plantation is an historic cotton plantation in Rusk County, Texas, worked by enslaved Black people until the June 19, 1865, emancipation of the slaves in the state.”
Wikipedia article Monte Verdi Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Rusk County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 11992 Cty. Rd. 4233 W., Cushing, 75760
When was it listed? March 2014
Category. building
Census division. Laneville
National Register reference number. 14000104 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Monte Verdi Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,301 acres in total. 4 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	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RITCHEY MULHOLLE
24 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OCAR JOHNSON
18 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNKNOWN
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNKNOW
17 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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 14000104 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rusk County	All 4 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.