Photograph of Fort McKavett — Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort McKavett Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Fort McKavett State Historic Site is a former United States Army installation located in Menard County, Texas. The fort was first established in 1852 as part of a line of forts in Texas intended to protect migrants traveling to California.”
Wikipedia article Fort McKavett State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Menard County · listed in 1971 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. S bank of the San Saba River, Fort McKavett, 76841
When was it listed? July 1971
Category. district
Census division. Menard West
National Register reference number. 71000955 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fort McKavett Historic District between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,254 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
17 August 2020	Natural	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DANIELSON
2 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	38 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PRESTON FIRE
5 February 2006	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST ZONE SOUTH - 53
4 February 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 October 2015	Debris and open burning	860 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PRESTON RANCH
20 January 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MCGOWAN RANCH FIRE

Every fire recorded in Menard 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 71000955 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Menard County	All 2 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.