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Fort Leaton
Built in 1978. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“The Fort Leaton State Historic Site is a 23.5 acres (9.5 ha) historic site in Presidio County, Texas, United States. The original adobe structure was a private residence dating back to the early 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Fort Leaton State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Presidio County · listed in 1973 · category: Site · built in 1978.
National Register reference number.73001972- 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
11 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort Leaton
between 2006 and 2019, burning about 632 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
Smoking
7
Debris and open burning
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Leaton: 2 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Presidio, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 9 flash flood, 1 flood.
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.
On September 9, the levees near Redford, TX failed. This resulted in water covering the entire city of Redford. A high water rescue was reported near Alamito Creek.||Heavy rain made matters worse by September 14. Flash flooding was occurring in the city of Presidio and border patrol closed the International Bridge on September 16. The Mexican side of the bridge was covered in water and levels continue to rise. Water also topped the levees near Presidio Golf Course on the 16th and 17th. Border patrol reported that nearly 15 feet of water was located in the fields near the golf course, with 3 to 4 feet of water covering the golf course itself.||The International Boundary and Water Commission reported cracks in the levees near the golf course on September 17 and water was beginning to approach Presidio High School.
A severe thunderstorm produced damaging outflow winds in Presidio. A warehouse was destroyed and four homes lost roofs. Small hail collected up to 6 inches deep in some locations around town. Slightly larger hail occurred approximately 30 minutes later, around 615 PM CDT, as the main core of the severe thunderstorm moved over the community.
The Texas Department of Transportation reported flash flooding resulting in high water in homes and businesses...as well as street flooding in the city of Presidio.
Lightning struck an insulator on a power pole near Presidio in the southern part of Presidio County. Damage caused by the lightning strike resulted in an eleven-hour power outage in the cities of Presidio, Shafter, and Redford. Electrical power was finally restored to area residents during the mid morning of Sunday the 16th.
Presidio County Sheriff's Office relayed a report of quarter-size hail at the Port of Entry in Presidio. The total time of occurrence is partially estimated from radar.
Heavy rainfall with embedded thunderstorms persisted over Presidio county. Storms caused Farm to Market Road 170 to flood and subsequently be closed by the Texas Department of Transportation due to the high water.
Several strong to severe thunderstorms affected the area from the Guadalupe Mountains south through the Big Bend on the afternoon and evening of the 15th. The public reported severe thunderstorm winds in Presidio.
The U.S. Border Patrol reported flash flooding along several creeks in Presidio. Flood waters from the swollen creeks were reported to inundate several city streets.
Heavy rains east of the Rio Grande filled local arroyos that sent flood waters across State Highway 170 upstream from Presidio. Department of Transportation employees worked through the night to clear sand and other debris from the highway.
A northeasterly upslope flow into the mountains of northern Chihuahua formed storms in the mountainous terrain. These storms were advected over the top of a frontal boundary and crossed the Rio Grande near Presidio where the hail fell. The storm appeared to continue with very strong intensity over open country while riding on the frontal boundary. The storm weakened as it approached the city of Marfa, where it skimmed the city to the south.
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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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