Concho County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Concho County Courthouse on Public Sq. in Paint Rock, Texas is a courthouse built in 1886. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Concho County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Concho County · listed in 1977 · 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. Public Sq., Paint Rock, 76866
When was it listed? November 1977
Category. building
Census division. Eola-Paint Rock
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
Architect. Frederick E. Ruffini and Oscar Ruffini
National Register reference number. 77001433 - 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

32 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Concho County Courthouse between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,702 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	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
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	27 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HADLEY FIRE
20 September 2017	Natural	651 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SULTIEMIER RANCH
22 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FUZZY CREEK FIRE
9 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	55 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 July 2017	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROCKY CREEK RANCH
6 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	70 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Concho County

Storms near this property

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paint Rock, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 36 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2012	Flash Flood	Paint Rock	$150,000	Law enforcement reported Highway 83 along the border of Runnels and Concho Counties was closed with four feet of water over the roadway. Concho County had about 14 to 15 miles of county roads washed away or severely damaged.
May 2005	Hail	Paint Rock	$25,000	A nearly stationary thunderstorm continued to produce golfball size hail in Paint Rock, and caused damage to vehicles and homes.
May 2002	Hail	Paint Rock	$10,000	Baseball size hail produced roof damage at Paint Rock.
May 1995	Hail	Paint Rock	$10,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Paint Rock	$5,000	As golfball Size hail fell in Paint Rock for the past four minutes, the hail damaged windows and roofs.
May 2005	Hail	Paint Rock	$5,000	Large hail fell in Paint Rock for a little over 30 minutes, and caused considerable damage.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	$3,000	An apparent microburst ripped part of a tin roof off of a mobile home near the O.H. Ivie Reservoir in northeast Concho County.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	$500	Downburst winds reached speeds of 67 mph at the NWS Office in San Angelo. Minor damage to roofs and tree limbs resulted. As the storm moved into Concho County, a cooperative observer reported winds in excess of 60 mph in Paint Rock. No significant damage was noted in Paint Rock.
March 2023	Hail	Paint Rock	-	The public also reported dime to nickel size hail. The hail fell until 4:05 PM.
May 2017	Hail	Paint Rock	-	Baseball size hail was reported by a trained spotter near Paint Rock.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	A trained spotter reported numerous tree limbs down throughout Paint Rock. The largest limbs were up to 15 feet in length.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds in Paint Rock.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	An amateur radio operator estimated 60 MPH winds.
March 2008	Hail	Paint Rock	-	Nickel size hail fell from 9:15 to 9:20 P.M.
May 2005	Hail	Paint Rock	-	The supercell thunderstorm that had been over Paint Rock for the past several minutes started to move to the east southeast.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	Large limbs were blown down in the community of Paint Rock.
May 2002	Hail	Paint Rock	-	Golfball size hail fell from a supercell thunderstorm moving across Concho County.
June 2000	Flash Flood	Paint Rock	-	Ranch Road 380 just west of Paint Rock was closed when up to 3 inches of rain caused water to flow over the roadway.
May 1998	Flash Flood	Paint Rock	-	Highway 380 at Kickapoo Creek flooded and impassable
July 1995	Hail	Paint Rock	-	The Matador Fire Department spotters reported a tornado one to two miles northwest of Flomot. The brief tornado touched down in an open area and did not cause any damage. In Coke County, the sheriff's office reported winds overturned two campers, slightly injuring two people. Hail destroyed young cotton crops near Rowena in Runnels County. An National Weather Service co-operative observer in Paint Rock reported dime-size hail.
May 1994	Hail	Paint Rock	-	The public reported one-inch diameter hail at O.H. Ivie Lake. UTAH
May 2023	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Paint Rock	-	no account filed
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Paint Rock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Concho 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 77001433 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Concho County	All 2 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.