Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument

Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the state of Texas. For thousands of years, people came to the red bluffs above the Canadian River for flint, vital to their existence.”
Wikipedia article Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Potter County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1965.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 50 sitess, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Fritch on the Canadian River, Fritch
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Canadian River Breaks
When was it built? 1965
National Register reference number. 66000822 - 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59,733 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAROLINE
6 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Lake Meredith National Recreation Area	TRAIL
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44 acres	Lake Meredith National Recreation Area	PALO DURO 1
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lake Meredith National Recreation Area	RIDGRE-RD
19 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lake Meredith National Recreation Area	MCBRIDE
14 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	#1258
5 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	4.9 acres	Lake Meredith National Recreation Area	MCBRIDE
3 August 2018	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALIBATES #2

Every fire recorded in Potter 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	McBride Ranch House	3.5 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000822 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Potter County	All 36 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.