BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for San Patricio County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
James McGloin Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. McGloin, James, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1 mi. NW of San Patricio on FM 666, San Patricio, 78368
- When was it listed? July 1971
- Category. building
- Census division. Mathis
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 71000961 - 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
38 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of James McGloin Homestead between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,477 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1100 FM 1540 |
| 13 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | F.M. 1540 |
| 5 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 52 |
| 31 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 360 |
| 31 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1540 |
| 3 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 51 |
| 15 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OAK LANE |
| 1 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 50 |
Storms near this property
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Patricio, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 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 2016 | Hail | San Patricio | $150,000 | Photo sent by public to local media showed tennis ball sized hail occurred in the community of San Patricio. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | San Patricio | - | An EF-0 tornado touched down near the town of Old San Patricio. A NWS survey team estimated winds fo 65-75 mph. The tornado had a path width of 25-50 yards and a path length of just over a half mile. Several large tree limbs were snapped along the path, and a couple of older trees were completely knocked over. Most of the damage was near the corner of Nopal Street and County Road 1664. |
| May 2006 | Hail | San Patricio | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | San Patricio | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James McGloin Homestead (Boundary Increase) | 0.1 miles | 1979 | |
 | San Patricio de Hibernia Monument | 1.9 miles | 2018 |
 | Sons of San Patricio Monument | 2.0 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 71000961 in Record Group 79. |
| San Patricio 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.