Los Ojuelos

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Los Ojuelos is a ghost town near Mirando City in the southeastern part of Webb County, Texas, United States. Before its establishment, Indians camped near the only dependable water source in the semiarid area.”
Wikipedia article Los Ojuelos, Texas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Webb County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 2.5 mi. S of Mirando City on SR 649, Mirando City
When was it listed? December 1976
Category. district
Census division. Laredo South-El Cenizo
Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 76002084 - 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

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Los Ojuelos in 2017, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning	6
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
8 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOLINA
15 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
3 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHINO'S
10 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	500 MAIN
27 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
22 January 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MIRANDO
1 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PARK

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mirando City, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mirando City	$5,000	Public reported large tree blown down in Mirando City.
March 2012	Hail	Mirando City	-	Public reported nickel sized hail in Mirando City.
April 2004	Hail	Mirando City	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Mirando City	-	no account filed
April 1997	Flash Flood	Mirando City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webb 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 76002084 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Webb County	All 9 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.