Panna Maria Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Karnes County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. TX 123, Panna Maria and, 78117
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. district
Census division. Falls City
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 76002043 - 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

137 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Panna Maria Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 404 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Debris and open burning	31
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
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
29 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TXDOT US181/CR219
22 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 September 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TXDOT FM99 AT PR6210

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Panna Maria Historic District: 6 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium. 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
Panna Maria East Mine	Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium	Past Producer	Stratabound
Panna Maria West Mine	Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium	Past Producer	Stratabound
Brysch Pit	Uranium	Producer
Brysch Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence	Stratabound
Fort Worth National Mine	Uranium	Past Producer	Stratabound
Ft Worth Natl Pit	Uranium	Producer
Hobson In Situ Uranium Proj	Uranium	Producer
Jaskinia Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence	Stratabound
Kopecki Mine	Uranium	Past Producer	Stratabound
Kotzur Mine	Uranium	Past Producer	Stratabound

Every working recorded in Karnes 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Karnes County Courthouse	4.2 miles	2010
	John Ruckman House	5.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002043 in Record Group 79.
Karnes County	All 3 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.