Fortin de la Cienega

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Presidio County · listed in 1976 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 15 mi. NE of Shafter on Cienega Creek, Shafter, 79843
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. building
Census division. Presidio
Architect. Milton Faver
National Register reference number. 76002059 - 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

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fortin de la Cienega between 1993 and 2016, burning about 12,736 acres in total. 1 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	1
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
17 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12,691 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHAFTER FIRE
7 May 2016	Natural	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CASA PIEDRA - CIENEGA MTN.

Every fire recorded in Presidio County

Storms near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shafter, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2012	Hail	Shafter	$20,000	A severe thunderstorm developed in Presidio County and produced golfball sized hail in Shafter. The hail resulted in five pickup truck windshields being destroyed and several homes with broken windows. The cost of the damage is a very rough estimate.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Shafter	-	A 60 mph wind gust was estimated by a storm spotter in Shafter. No damage was reported with this gust.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Shafter	-	The public reported that wind gusts estimated to be 60 MPH accompanied nickel size hail in Shafter. No reports of damage were received.
May 2005	Hail	Shafter	-	A spotter reported golfball size hail in Shafter. No damage was reported.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Shafter	-	For the second time in a week, severe thunderstorm winds impacted the Cibola Ranch north of Shafter. Employees at the ranch reported that large tree limbs were broken by 70 MPH winds on the evening of the 7th as an isolated severe thunderstorm moved south across parts of Presidio County.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Shafter	-	Severe thunderstorm winds were estimated at speeds between 60 and 70 MPH from Shafter to the Cibola Creek Ranch off of U.S. Highway 67. The winds were accompanied by "blinding" dust.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Shafter	-	A local rancher reported that a farm road was washed out by flash flooding.
May 2016	Hail	Shafter	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Shafter	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presidio 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
	La Morita Historic District	3.0 miles	1995
	Shafter Historic Mining District	5.7 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002059 in Record Group 79.
Presidio County	All 11 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.
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.