Fort Phantom Hill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Fort Phantom Hill, also called the Camp on the Clear Fork, is a former United States Army installation located in Jones County, Texas. The fort was established in 1851 as part of a line of forts in Texas to protect migrants passing through the state on their way to California.”
Wikipedia article Fort Phantom Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Jones County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. N of Abilene on Ranch Rd. 600, Abilene, 79601
When was it listed? September 1972
Category. site
Census division. Hawley-Noodle
National Register reference number. 72001367 - 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

73 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Fort Phantom Hill between 2003 and 2020, burning about 7,717 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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	34
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SILO
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1082
6 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROLLING PLAINS - 11
3 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E. LAKE RD. & FM 1082
2 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NUGENT ASSIST
18 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13-084
15 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 August 2019	Natural	107 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARVEY

Every fire recorded in Jones 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 72001367 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jones County	All 22 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.