Hot Springs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Hot Springs, also known as Boquillas Hot Springs, and Langford Hot Springs is a former thermal spring resort in what is now Big Bend National Park in Texas. Hot Springs was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”
Wikipedia article Hot Springs (Big Bend National Park), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. W of Rio Grande Village, Big Bend National Park
When was it listed? September 1974
Category. site
National Register reference number. 74000278 - 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Hot Springs between 1993 and 2017, burning about 341 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	HOT SPRINGS CANYON
5 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	AMPITHEATE
10 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	13 acres	Big Bend National Park	BARKER
25 July 2015	Natural	62 acres	Big Bend National Park	CROSSING
19 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	BOQUILLAS
12 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	TUNNEL
28 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Big Bend National Park	OVERLOOK
14 June 1997	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	ELF

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hot Springs: 3 occurrences. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ojo Caliente	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Ojo Caliente	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Unnamed Occurrences	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

1 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
	Daniels Farm House	1.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000278 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.