Pinery Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Pinery Station, or The Pinery, was built as a relay station on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route, located at the crest of Guadalupe Pass in what is now Guadalupe Mountains National Park in the U.S. state of Texas. The station, now in ruins, was built in 1858 and was abandoned the next year.”
Wikipedia article Pinery Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Culberson 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off U.S. 62/180, Gaudalupe Mountain National Park, 79847
When was it listed? October 1974
Category. site
Census division. Van Horn Rural
National Register reference number. 74000281 - 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Pinery Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,833 acres in total. 32 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
Natural	32
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
25 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	PEAK
17 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	BUSH TRAIL
16 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	SOLDIER
13 August 1995	Natural	18 acres	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	BARTLETT
9 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	BLUE
9 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	TEJAS
8 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	RIDGE
4 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	HAIL

Every fire recorded in Culberson 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 Pinery Station: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. 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
	Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Silver	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Culberson 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Guadalupe Ranch	1.4 miles	1978
Wallace E. Pratt House	5.6 miles	2011
Wallace Pratt Lodge	6.6 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000281 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Culberson 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.