Quitaque Railway Tunnel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Quitaque Railway Tunnel or Clarity Tunnel is a 582 feet (177 m) abandoned railway tunnel in Floyd County, Texas about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Quitaque. Construction started in 1927, and the tunnel and associated railway line were completed and opened for use in 1930.”
Wikipedia article Quitaque Railway Tunnel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Floyd County · listed in 1977 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 mi. SW of Quitaque, Quitaque, 79255
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. structure
Census division. Lockney
National Register reference number. 77001442 - 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Quitaque Railway Tunnel between 2006 and 2020, burning about 5,946 acres in total. 3 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	6
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
14 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	34 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
10 August 2016	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
21 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLIVER CLARK
21 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FLOYD CO FIRE
7 June 2018	Natural	120 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROGER VENSON
31 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1065 AND CR 76
20 May 2006	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 March 2008	Arson/incendiarism	402 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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 77001442 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Floyd County	All 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.