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Photograph of Hudspeth County Courthouse
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hudspeth County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Hudspeth County Courthouse is located in the town of Sierra Blanca, the seat of Hudspeth County in the U.S. state of Texas. The courthouse was constructed in 1919 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”

Wikipedia article Hudspeth County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Hudspeth 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Millican St., Sierra Blanca, 79851
  • When was it listed? May 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sierra Blanca
  • Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75001993 - 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

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hudspeth County Courthouse in 2011, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service120 FIRE
16 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service106 FIRE
14 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service110 FIRE

Every fire recorded in Hudspeth 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 Hudspeth County Courthouse: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrenceChrysocolla, Malachite

Every working recorded in Hudspeth County

Storms near this property

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sierra Blanca, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 13 hail, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1998LightningSierra Blanca1 hurtA man was injured and sent to the hospital after his vehicle was struck by lightning.
April 2017HailSierra Blanca$2,000,000Hail from 1.5 inches to 2.5 inches in diameter was reported in and around Sierra Blanca. Some areas had hail up to 3 inches deep. Numerous house windows and automobile windshields were damaged, with many cars left dented. Hail also severely damaged dozens of roofs and even penetrated a few.
May 2007Flash FloodSierra Blanca$50,000At least 6 houses were flooded in Sierra Blanca, with one of them evacuated. Most of the secondary roads in the area were washed out and closed.
September 2021Flash FloodSierra Blanca-TXDOT closed railroad frontage underpass because of flooding in Sierra Blanca.
June 2013HailSierra Blanca-Marble to penny sized hail.
May 2010HailSierra Blanca-Golfball size hail was reported in Sierra Blanca.
May 2010HailSierra Blanca-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported at the United States Border Patrol Station in Sierra Blanca.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Sierra Blanca-A tornado was observed by a sheriff's deputy near mile marker 114 on Interstate 10, about 6 miles southeast of Sierra Blanca.
September 2007Flash FloodSierra Blanca-Heavy rains (2.5 inches) caused flash flooding in the Sierra Blanca area. Skunk Canyon Road was washed out, and arroyos were over bankfull.
June 2019HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
March 2007HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
May 2005HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
May 2004HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
May 2004HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
October 2004HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
October 2004HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
October 2004HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSierra Blanca-no account filed
October 2000HailSierra Blanca-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Sierra Blanca-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F1)Sierra Blanca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hudspeth 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001993 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hudspeth CountyAll 1 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.