Photograph of Novillo Line Camp — Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dunn Ranch, Novillo Line Camp

Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Kleberg County · listed in 1974 · category: Site · built in 1879.

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

The listing

Address. S of Corpus Christi in Padre Island National Seashore, Corpus Christi, 78418
When was it listed? October 1974
Category. site
Census division. Kingsville
When was it built? 1879
National Register reference number. 74000277 - 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Dunn Ranch, Novillo Line Camp between 1993 and 2018, burning about 11,719 acres in total. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Padre Island National Seashore	BUZZED
9 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	600 acres	Padre Island National Seashore	TIMS
9 July 1995	Fireworks	150 acres	Padre Island National Seashore	FIREWORKS
4 July 1996	Smoking	345 acres	Padre Island National Seashore	BIB FIRE
3 July 2017	Fireworks	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ISLAND
25 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	652 acres	Padre Island National Seashore	COLLINS FI
2 July 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Padre Island National Seashore	MICHELS1ST
2 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Padre Island National Seashore	KLEBERG1

Every fire recorded in Kleberg County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dunn Ranch, Novillo Line Camp: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Haas Trucking Company Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

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 74000277 in Record Group 79.
Kleberg 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.
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.