King Ranch

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Kenedy County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1853 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
Address. Kingsville and its environs, Kingsville and, 78363
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
When was it built? 1853
National Register reference number. 66000820 - 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.

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 66000820 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kenedy County	All 1 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.