Homer Wilson Ranch

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Homer Wilson Ranch, also known as the Blue Creek Ranch, was one of the largest ranches in the early twentieth century in what would become Big Bend National Park in the U.S. state of Texas. The ranch was established by Homer Wilson in 1929 at Oak Springs to the west of the Chisos Mountains.”
Wikipedia article Homer Wilson Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Brewster County · listed in 1975 · category: District · built in 1929.

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

The listing

Listed as. Wilson, Homer, Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8 mi. S of Santa Elena Junction on Park Rte. 5, Big Bend National Park, Santa Elena Junction, 79834
When was it listed? April 1975
Category. district
Census division. Alpine
When was it built? 1929
National Register reference number. 75000153 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Homer Wilson Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,075 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2007	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	BURRO
23 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	EASTERN EMORY FIRE
20 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	FRIDAY NIGHT
11 September 1999	Natural	11 acres	Big Bend National Park	ROUTE 15
7 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	OOMPALOOPA
28 August 2018	Natural	495 acres	Big Bend National Park	SOTOL SW
2 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	SOUTHWEST 4 FIRE
10 August 2011	Natural	1,945 acres	Big Bend National Park	BURRO MESA

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000153 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.