Photograph of Fort Davis National Historic Site — Photograph by National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Davis, Post Hospital

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1961. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Davis National Historic Site is a United States national historic site located in the unincorporated community of Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, Texas. Located within the Davis Mountains of West Texas, the historic site was established in 1961 to protect one of the best remaining examples of a United States Army fort in the southwestern United States.”
Wikipedia article Fort Davis National Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jeff Davis County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · built in 1961 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 41 sitess, 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Jct. of TX 17 and 118, Fort Davis, 79734
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Census division. Fort Davis
When was it built? 1961
National Register reference number. 66000045 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Fort Davis, Post Hospital between 1994 and 2019, burning about 7,038 acres in total. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Natural	18
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SPOT FIRES
25 September 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIGHTNING TREE FIRE
10 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	COTTONWOOD III
8 August 2010	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SPROUL FIRE
21 August 2009	Natural	250 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STATE PARK AREA
20 August 2009	Natural	1,500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST KEESEY CANYON FIRE
5 July 2018	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOLAR PUMP FIRE
30 July 2018	Natural	36 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POOR FARM FIRE

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hotel Limpia	0.7 miles	2025
Jeff Davis County Courthouse	0.7 miles	2002
Henry M. and Annie V. Trueheart House	0.8 miles	1996
Grierson-Sproul House	0.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000045 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jeff Davis County	All 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.