John McCroskey Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Brazoria County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McCroskey, John, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2 mi. NE of Cedar Lake on Stringfellow Ranch, Cedar Lake, 77422
When was it listed? August 1975
Category. building
Census division. Brazoria-West Columbia
National Register reference number. 75001958 - 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

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of John McCroskey Cabin between 1996 and 2020, burning about 4,669 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
6 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	FIREHOUSE FIRE
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	WEED BURNER FIRE
15 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	CHURCHWELL
20 August 2020	Natural	58 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	TXSNR-FY20-WF-DOUBLE MOCCASIN POND
19 August 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 496
5 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1,000 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	WINDMILL
9 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	NEW GATE SOUTH
9 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	NEW GATE NORTH

Every fire recorded in Brazoria 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 John McCroskey Cabin: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
	Clemens Dome	Sulfur	Unknown

Every working recorded in Brazoria 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
Gazebo for James Richard Marmion	7.4 miles	2004
Palapa Table for James Richard Marmion	7.5 miles	2004
Henry Smith Statue	7.9 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001958 in Record Group 79.
Brazoria County	All 12 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.