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Photograph of Rancho Estelle
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Rancho Estelle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Rancho Estelle was the home of James Sublett, one of the first large-scale farmers in the Rio Grande valley of Texas, within what is now Big Bend National Park. Prior to founding the ranch, Sublett and his partner, Clyde Buttrill, farmed the bottomlands along the river in the area of what is now known as Castolon or La Harmonia, downstream from the later ranch.”

Wikipedia article Rancho Estelle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

  • Address. On the Rio Grande River, Big Bend National Park, 79834
  • When was it listed? September 1974
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Alpine
  • National Register reference number. 74000280 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Estelle between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4,625 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBig Bend National ParkCOTTONWOOD
4 July 2015Naturalunder an acreBig Bend National ParkTERLINGULA ABAJO
8 June 2012Naturalunder an acreBig Bend National ParkAVINO HOUSE
31 May 1993Natural3,495 acresBig Bend National ParkMAYDAY
22 May 2019Arson/incendiarism944 acresBig Bend National ParkCASTOLON
21 May 2010Natural122 acresBig Bend National ParkSUBLETT
25 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined29 acresBig Bend National ParkALAMO
10 April 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreBig Bend National ParkVISTA

Every fire 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Castolon Historic District4.3 miles1974
Luna Jacal5.0 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000280 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brewster CountyAll 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.