Panther Junction Mission 66 Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Brewster County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. P.O. Box 129, Big Bend National Park, 79834
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. district
Census division. Alpine
National Register reference number. 14000626 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Panther Junction Mission 66 Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,376 acres in total. 40 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
Natural	40
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
18 September 2001	Natural	2.7 acres	Big Bend National Park	SMUGGLER
9 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	SOLO
29 August 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	TRANSFORMER
28 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	LONE MTN
11 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	GUN RANGE
9 July 1994	Natural	3,774 acres	Big Bend National Park	ESTUFA
31 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	GREEN
28 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	JOSELYN

Every fire recorded in Brewster 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 14000626 in Record Group 79.
Brewster County	All 14 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.