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Photograph of Fort Lancaster
Photograph by Sketch by a government draftsman, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Lancaster

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Fort Lancaster is a former United States Army installation located near Sheffield, Texas. The fort was established in 1855 on the San Antonio-El Paso Road to protect migrants moving toward California through Texas.”

Wikipedia article Fort Lancaster, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Crockett County · listed in 1971 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. 10 mi. E of Sheffield on U.S. 290, Sheffield, 79781
  • When was it listed? March 1971
  • Category. site
  • Census division. West Crockett
  • National Register reference number. 71000928 - 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fort Lancaster between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,307 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2015Natural103 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLANCASTER HILL
12 August 2015Natural693 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUTTON RANCH
30 June 2020Natural6.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINGRAM
19 June 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRADIO TOWER FIRE
19 June 2011Natural70 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRED BALL FIRE
18 June 2008Natural343 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAGUA SI
26 October 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution72 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEADOWS

Every fire recorded in Crockett 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000928 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crockett CountyAll 3 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.