Castolon Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Brewster County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along Rio Grande at jct. of Park Rtes. 5, 9, and 35, Big Bend National Park, 79834
When was it listed? September 1974
Category. district
Census division. Alpine
National Register reference number. 74000276 - 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Castolon Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,230 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	4

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
9 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	BUENOSAIR2
22 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Big Bend National Park	BUENOSAIR1
8 June 2012	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	AVINO HOUSE
8 June 2008	Natural	3.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	BEE MOUNTAIN
8 June 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	BUENOSAIRE
3 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	SMUGGLERS
26 May 2016	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	TUFF
22 May 2019	Arson/incendiarism	944 acres	Big Bend National Park	CASTOLON

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Castolon Historic District: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Vicente Sierra San	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Brewster 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Rancho Estelle	4.3 miles	1974
	Luna Jacal	6.0 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000276 in Record Group 79.
Brewster County	All 14 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.
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.