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Photograph of Frijole Ranch
Photograph by Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Guadalupe Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Frijole Ranch, also known as Guadalupe Ranch, Spring Hill Ranch and the Rader-Smith Ranch, is located in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in extreme west Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978, and represents a significant period in the settlement and ranching of the Guadalupe Mountains.”

Wikipedia article Frijole Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Culberson County · listed in 1978 · 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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NE of Salt Flat in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Salt Flat, 79847
  • When was it listed? November 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Van Horn Rural
  • National Register reference number. 78000259 - 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Guadalupe Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,858 acres in total. 40 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
Natural40
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 1998Naturalunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkPEAK
17 August 2011Naturalunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkBUSH TRAIL
16 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkSOLDIER
13 August 1995Natural18 acresGuadalupe Mountains National ParkBARTLETT
9 July 1994Naturalunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkBLUE
9 July 1994Naturalunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkTEJAS
8 July 1998Naturalunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkLAMAR
8 July 1993Naturalunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Culberson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Guadalupe Ranch: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed ProspectCopper, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Culberson 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Pinery Station1.4 miles1974
Wallace E. Pratt House4.3 miles2011
Wallace Pratt Lodge5.4 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Culberson CountyAll 6 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.