Ysleta Mission

Built in 1680 (Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Ysleta Mission, located in the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo within the municipality of El Paso, Texas, is recognized as the oldest continuously operated parish in the State of Texas. The Ysleta community is also recognized as the oldest in Texas and claims to have the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Ysleta Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1680, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. 80 near jct. with Zaragosa Rd., Ysleta, 79907
When was it listed? July 1972
Category. building
Census division. El Paso
When was it built? 1680
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 72001360 - 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ysleta Mission in 2018, burning about 200 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 January 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1477

Every fire recorded in El Paso 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Socorro Mission, Church	2.6 miles	1972
Franklin Canal	3.7 miles	1992
Rio Vista Farm Historic District	4.2 miles
San Elizario Historic District	8.0 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Paso County	All 56 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.