XIT General Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Hartley County · listed in 1985 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Railroad Ave. and 5th St., Channing, 79018
When was it listed? May 1985
Category. building
Census division. Channing
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 85000960 - 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

31 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of XIT General Office between 2000 and 2020, burning about 42,620 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Smoking	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIT RANCH ROW
8 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	385 RIGHT OF WAY FIRE
7 July 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	600 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FULTON RANCH COMPLEX
11 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	354 RIGHT OF WAY FIRE
9 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	481 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHANNING FIRE
8 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 767 FIRE
5 June 2013	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	767
30 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEAD MAN CANYON FIRE

Every fire recorded in Hartley County

Storms near this property

60 of 93 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Channing, the town this property stands in, in 93 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 68 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 flash 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
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	$15,000	Local law enforcement officials reported numerous power lines down due to thunderstorm winds from Channing to five miles north of Channing. No injuries were reported.
April 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Channing	$12,000	This tornado formed four miles west of Boys Ranch in Oldham county and entered Hartley county two and a half miles south southeast of Channing at 1759 CST. The tornado continued for another thirteen and a half miles before dissipating on mile south of U.S. Highway 87 or seven miles east southeast of Hartley. In Hartley county...numerous power poles...fences...and a few highway signs sustained damage. While in Oldham county...the tornado was rated as EF0 but in Hartley county it was rated as EF1. There were no fatalities and no injuries reported.
May 2024	Hail	Channing	$10,000	no account filed
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	$6,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed or snapped six power poles four miles north of Channing Texas in Hartley county. There were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	$5,000	An electrical transmission line was reported blown down by the high winds causing two hundred and seventy-two homes in the town of Channing to be without power.
June 2025	Hail	Channing	$2,000	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Channing	-	A Sheriff Deputy reported quarter size hail in Channing.
June 2020	Hail	Channing	-	Golf ball size hail fell 4 miles south-southeast of Channing.
May 2016	Hail	Channing	-	Half dollar size hail occurred 11 miles east-northeast of Channing.
May 2016	Hail	Channing	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in Channing. The hail occurred from 3 miles west of Channing to the west side of Channing.
May 2016	Hail	Channing	-	Golf ball size hail fell 6 miles east-northeast of Channing.
May 2016	Hail	Channing	-	Walnut size hail was reported 1 mile east of Channing.
May 2016	Hail	Channing	-	Golf ball size hail was reported 5 miles east-northeast of Channing.
June 2016	Hail	Channing	-	Hail up to the size of tennis balls northwest of Channing.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	The KVII schoolnet site 7 miles east-northeast of Channing measured a wind gust of 67 mph.
July 2015	Hail	Channing	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported 3 miles east of Channing.
July 2015	Hail	Channing	-	Tennis ball size hail was reported in Channing.
July 2015	Hail	Channing	-	Two inch diameter hail was reported in Channing.
July 2015	Hail	Channing	-	Hail up to baseball size was reported by a storm chaser near Channing.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	Scattered thunderstorms developed across Hartley County during the afternoon hours of the 22nd. As a storm approached the town of Channing (Hartley County), a trained storm spotter reported an estimated 70 mph thunderstorm downburst which turned over a center pivot irrigation system 5 miles northwest of Channing (Hartley County). After producing this downburst, no further severe weather was reported.
June 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Channing	-	A discrete supercell developed during the evening hours of the 6th. As the storm intensified it produced a brief tornado over the rural portions of Hartley County. Due to the location of the tornado, minimal damage was located however multiple eye witnesses reported the tornado. The winds were estimated at 65 mph. After producing this brief tornado, the supercell began to diminish as it merged with a broken line of thunderstorms.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	The general public located eight miles northeast of Channing estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of fifty-two knots.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	The general public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts near sixty-one knots just west of Channing.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	An amateur radio operator estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of fifty-two knots in Channing.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	An amateur radio operator estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of sixty-one knots in Channing.
May 2008	Hail	Channing	-	The hail was reported to be quarter size to golf ball size.
May 2008	Hail	Channing	-	Nickel size to quarter size hail was reported on Farm to Market Road 722 just west of the Hartley and Moore County line.
April 2008	Hail	Channing	-	Several branches were also reported broken.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Channing	-	The tornado developed four miles north northwest of Channing at 1429 CST and moved northeast. There were multiple reports from trained spotters...the broadcast media...and an off-duty National Weather Service employee of the tornado touching the ground. The tornado remained over open country and ended at 1435 CST roughly four to five miles north of Channing. No structural damage or injuries were reported. The tornado path length and path width were estimated. There were reports that four inch diameter tree branches were snapped off by the tornado.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Channing	-	This tornado formed six miles northeast of Channing in Hartley County and tracked east northeast for about five miles before exiting Hartley County about ten and a half miles east northeast of Channing at 1444 CST. The tornado continued in western Moore County for about another two miles...before dissipating at 1449 CST. The tornado remained over open country and no damage or injuries were reported. The tornado path length and path width were estimated.
March 2007	Hail	Channing	-	Hail reportedly covered the ground.
July 2005	Hail	Channing	-	Reported from Farm to Market Road 722 and U.S. Highway 385.
July 2005	Tornado (F0)	Channing	-	Tornado verified from broadcast media video of brief touchdown with debris cloud. The tornado remained over open country and the tornado path length and path width were estimated. No damage or injuries were reported.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Channing	-	Farm to Market Road 767 reported closed due to six to eight inches of water over the roadway.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Channing	-	Farm to Market Road 767 had three to four inches of water over the road and had to be shut down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	Numerous tree limbs were reported blown down in the town of Channing.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Channing	-	Extensive flooding to fields reported along State Highway 354.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Channing	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Channing	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hartley 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hartley County Courthouse and Jail	0.3 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000960 in Record Group 79.
Hartley 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.