Wallace Pratt Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Wallace Pratt Lodge was the summer residence of Wallace Pratt, the principal donor of the lands that would become Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Pratt was a petroleum geologist employed by the Humble Oil Company, scouting for oilfield leases in west Texas.”
Wikipedia article Wallace Pratt Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Culberson County · listed in 1975 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pratt, Wallace, Lodge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. At jct. of N and S branch of McKittrick Canyon, Gaudalupe Mountain National Park, 79847
When was it listed? March 1975
Category. building
Census division. Van Horn Rural
National Register reference number. 75000154 - 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 Wallace Pratt Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,182 acres in total. 42 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	42
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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 2011	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	DEVILS DEN
7 August 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	BIG
6 August 2011	Natural	78 acres	Lincoln National Forest	MCKITTRICK
9 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	TEJAS
8 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	LAMAR
8 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	RIDGE
5 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	MCKITTRICK
4 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	HAIL

Every fire recorded in Culberson County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wallace Pratt Lodge: 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Stone, Dimension, 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
Calumet and Texas Mine	Copper, Zinc, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Mccombs Ranch Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Silver	Occurrence
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
Wallace E. Pratt House	2.0 miles	2011
Guadalupe Ranch	5.4 miles	1978
Pinery Station	6.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000154 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.