A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period.”
Wikipedia article Spindletop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000818- 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
10 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lucas Gusher, Spindletop Oil Field
between 1996 and 2015, burning about 523 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Natural
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Lucas Gusher, Spindletop Oil Field: 5 producers, 2 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Sulfur, Sulfur, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Beaumont, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 29 thunderstorm wind, 21 flash flood, 13 hail, 2 lightning.
The reports record 2 deaths and 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
The public and local media reported the tin metal roof was blown off Snowden Automotive on South MLK Jr. Parkway at Calder Road in downtown Beaumont, injuring one person and damaging several cars in the parking lot.
Around ten inches of rain fell in less than six hours, resulting in widespread flooding across northern Jefferson County, including the metropolitan area of Beaumont. Many people awoke to see flood waters in their homes, vehicles, and businesses. Nearly 900 homes were damaged, but only 10 were classified as destroyed. Roads and bridges also received some damage from the flood waters.
Beaumont media received multiple photos from along the Eastex Freeway, Delaware Street, Lucas Drive, and other Northeast Beaumont roads that were flooded. Several cars were flooded during the event.
Beaumont Enterprise reported numerous downed powerlines across Beaumont, with 5700 customers without power across the city and 11000 customers without power throughout southeast Texas.
Beaumont Emergency Management reported intermittent hail through the county of diameter up to three-quarters inch. The National Weather Service office observed hail one-half of an inch and possibly larger.
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 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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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