Fort Belknap

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1851. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Belknap, located near Newcastle, Texas, was established in November 1851 by brevet Brigadier General William G. Belknap to protect the Texas frontier against raids by the Kiowa and Comanche.”
Wikipedia article Fort Belknap (Texas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Young County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · built in 1851 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 1 mi. S of jct. of TX 24 and 251, Newcastle, 76424
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
When was it built? 1851
National Register reference number. 66000824 - 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

39 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Fort Belknap between 2006 and 2020, burning about 728 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COMBRINK FIRE
5 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HANLON CR 171
5 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 171 FIRE
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RANDY BLACK
23 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLACK CADDO LEASE
11 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	171 FIRE
23 August 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 168
21 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	REA FIRE

Every fire recorded in Young County

Storms near this property

60 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newcastle, the town this property stands in, in 65 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 42 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2014	Hail	Newcastle	$40,000	The Young County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail at Fort Belknap.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$30,000	Downburst winds caused damage in Newcastle. Large trees were knocked down; some of the trees were a foot in diameter. Power lines and power poles were also knocked down. Light roof damage was reported around the town, and a few 15'x15' outbuilding were blown up against houses.
March 2007	Lightning	Newcastle	$30,000	A lightning strike struck a mobile home and destroyed it. No one was injured.
May 2013	Hail	Newcastle	$20,000	Hail to the size of a chicken egg was reported near Newcastle. Quarter and golf ball sized hail was also reported.
April 2008	Hail	Newcastle	$20,000	Baseball to golfball-size hail was reported south of Olney.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$10,000	Power lines and poles were downed with power outages reported.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$10,000	The roof was blown off a grocery store and multiple power lines were blown down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$10,000	Strong winds removed the roof from a mobile home.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$7,000	Two power poles were blown over east of Newcastle along Highway 380.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$7,000	Minor roof damage was observed in Newcastle. Shingles were torn off other houses.
June 2011	Hail	Newcastle	$6,000	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Newcastle	$5,000	Golf ball sized hail has reported by fire and rescue 6 miles southwest of Newcastle, TX.
May 2012	Hail	Newcastle	$5,000	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported in Newcastle via HAM radio.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$5,000	Storm spotters estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 mph in Newcastle.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$5,000	High winds tore shingles from the roof of a home.
October 2012	Hail	Newcastle	$4,000	Golf ball sized hail was reported in Newcastle.
June 2012	Hail	Newcastle	$2,000	Tennis to baseball sized hail was reported near Fort Belknap State Park.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	$100	Large tree limbs were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2023	Hail	Newcastle	-	Dime sized hail reported near Newcastle.
March 2018	Hail	Newcastle	-	A storm chaser reported quarter-sized hail approximately 4 miles west-southwest of the city of Newcastle, TX.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Newcastle	-	Young County Sheriff's Department reported water over Hwy 380 west of Newcastle, TX.
May 2015	Hail	Newcastle	-	Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail on FM 3109 approximately 8 miles west of Graham, TX.
May 2015	Hail	Newcastle	-	Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail on FM 3109 approximately 8 miles west of Graham, TX.
April 2014	Hail	Newcastle	-	Young County Sheriff's deputies reported quarter sized hail north of Newcastle.
May 2013	Hail	Newcastle	-	Hail to the size of a tea cup was reported in Newcastle.
May 2012	Hail	Newcastle	-	Half dollar sized hail was reported in Newcastle.
September 2010	Flood	Newcastle	-	Residual flooding continued along FM 926 west of Newcastle after the rain ended.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Newcastle	-	Flooding was reported along FM 926 approximately 1 mile west of Newcastle.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Newcastle	-	Roads were closed near Highway 380 due to high water.
April 2004	Flash Flood	Newcastle	-	Flash flooding reported by a spotter in Newcastle.
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Newcastle	-	A brief tornado was reported. No damage or injury reports were received.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 1995	Hail	Newcastle	-	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995	Hail	Newcastle	-	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995	Hail	Newcastle	-	Power lines were blown down by high winds.
May 1994	Tornado (F0)	Newcastle	-	A brief tornado was reported two miles north of Newcastle.
May 1993	Tornado (F1)	Newcastle	-	A brief tornado touchdown uprooted a few trees in open country.,
May 2015	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Newcastle	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Newcastle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Young 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 66000824 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Young County	All 6 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.
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.