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Photograph of Luna Jacal
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Luna Jacal

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Luna Jacal or Luna's Jacal was the residence of Gilberto Luna, a Mexican pioneer farmer in the area of Texas that would become Big Bend National Park. The jacal, an indigenous Tejano dwelling suited to the desert environment, was built about 1890 with a low sandstone and limestone wall about 4 feet (1.2 m), with forked poles set upright into the walls, supporting roof poles.”

Wikipedia article Luna Jacal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. At base of Pena Mountain in Big Bend National Park, Big Bend National Park, 79834
  • When was it listed? November 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Alpine
  • National Register reference number. 74000282 - 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Luna Jacal between 2000 and 2017, burning about 154 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 2008Natural3.0 acresBig Bend National ParkBEE MOUNTAIN
21 May 2010Natural122 acresBig Bend National ParkSUBLETT
25 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined29 acresBig Bend National ParkALAMO
31 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBig Bend National ParkOCOTILLO GROVE

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
Rancho Estelle5.0 miles1974
Castolon Historic District6.0 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000282 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.