Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“First Presbyterian Church, now known as Primera Iglesia Bautista, is a historic Christian church building on Fannin and 3rd Streets in Van Horn, Texas.”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church (Van Horn, Texas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Culberson County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002912- 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.
Mines and
quarries near this property
10 of 11 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church: 8 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper, Talc-Soapstone, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Van Horn, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Culberson County emergency manager reported a power outage in Van Horn with roof damage to the Knights Inn. Photos showed part of the roof peeled up and ripped off of the motel with damage to nearby vehicles and powerlines. Damage was likely caused by a localized dry microburst based on satellite data. Wind speeds are estimated to have been between 60-70 mph. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
A thunderstorm moved across Culberson County and produced wind damage in Van Horn. A large tin roof was blown off of a building and onto a highway. There was other wind damage around town such as fences and power lines blown down. The damage was likely caused by a microburst. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
A thunderstorm that moved across Van Horn produced a localized area of damaging straight-line winds as the core of this storm collapsed just south of the town. Culberson County Office of Emergency Management reported ten snapped powerline poles one to two miles south of Van Horn along Highway 90 that resulted in a town-wide power outage. It was determined by the National Weather Service that the damage was caused by a microburst after re-evaluating radar data and assessing the damage remotely using photos sent in by the Culberson County emergency management. Winds were estimated to be near 100 mph. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
Texas Highway 54 was closed from Van Horn to Pine Springs on August 31st due to damage from flooding. Attempts to fix the highway failed on September 1st when additional rainfall washed out repairs.
A thunderstorm moved across Culberson County and produced wind damage in Van Horn. There was wind damage to a barn shed and a garage shop roof was blown off. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
Strong to severe convection developed along the higher terrain of far west Texas and extreme northern Mexico during the afternoon of the 5th. An isolated supercell thunderstorm tracked east across southern Culberson County during the evening hours. Large hail accumulated along U.S. Highway 90 south of Van Horn. The Texas Department of Transportation reported hail remained and continued to cover grassy areas at 08:00 CST on the morning of the 6th, some twelve hours after the storm.
At 10:41 CST National Park Service employees reported flash flooding that resulted in high water over Texas Highway 54 at several locations between Van Horn and Pine Springs. A later report from the National Park Service indicated that the water was flowing up to two feet deep at some locations by 15:15 CST. Heavy rainfall exited Culberson County by late afternoon. The flash flooding quickly receded along Texas Highway 54, but debris was reported covering portions of the highway, where flooding had occurred at 17:30 CST.
A DPS trooper traveling on Interstate 10 reported a "long and skinny" tornado east of Van Horn. Radar indicated a strong thunderstorm in the area with cloud tops to 50,000 feet.
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
1 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.
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.
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.
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.
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