Ada Belle Oil Well

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 2 objectss as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Batson, Batson, 77564
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Census division. Saratoga-Batson
National Register reference number. 80004126 - 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Ada Belle Oil Well between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,019 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 43 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
Debris and open burning	67
Arson/incendiarism	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GALLANDER RANCH
26 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	98 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 210
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	THRASHER PROPERTY
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Big Thicket National Park	BATSON
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2000	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 648
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ada Belle Oil Well: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Batson Salt Dome	Halite	Occurrence	1903

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Batson, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
October 2015	Flood	Batson	$250,000	As rainwater drained toward Pine Island Bayou and Black Creek flooding continued in south portions of Hardin County for a few days. Around 15 homes flooded in Pinewood Estates while Pine Island Bayou crested.
December 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Batson	$20,000	no account filed
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Batson	-	Power lines downed in Batson.
May 2013	Hail	Batson	-	Golf ball size sized hail was reported on Highway 105 near Highway 770 southwest of Saratoga. The report was relayed by the Hardin County Sheriffs office.
October 2013	Heavy Rain	Batson	-	Heavy Rain caused minor flooding of some roadways around Batson including FM770 and around Luberton including Candlestick Drive. Pictures were also sent in via Facebook of minor flooding around Lumberton.
March 2002	Hail	Batson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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 80004126 in Record Group 79.
Hardin 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.
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.