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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Hidalgo County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mary S. and Gordon Griffin House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Griffin, Mary S. and Gordon, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 704 N. 15th St., McAllen, 78501
- When was it listed? June 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. McAllen-Pharr
- Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 14000341 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
53 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Mary S. and Gordon Griffin House between 2002 and 2018, burning about 292 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 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 |
| 29 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sam and Marjorie Miller House | under 500 feet | 1997 |
| Casa de Palmas | 0.4 miles | 2003 | |
| Cine El Rey | 0.6 miles | 2002 | |
 | M and J Nelson Building | 0.7 miles | 2008 |
 | 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 14000341 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.