BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Dimmit County · listed in 1985 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Valenzuela Ranch Headquarters
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Valenzuela Creek, Catarina
- When was it listed? July 1985
- Category. district
- Census division. Asherton
- National Register reference number. 85001562 - 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
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Valenzuela Ranch Headquarters between 2006 and 2008, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 January 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catarina, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catarina | $10,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down power lines and caused minor damage to a house. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Catarina | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 83 south of Catarina. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Catarina | - | A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail at a convenience store in Catarina. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Catarina | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail north of Catarina. |
| September 2017 | Flood | Catarina | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flooding closing FM 2688 in both directions west of Catarina. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Catarina | - | Thunderstorms dropped from 2 to 4 inches of rain in the southeast corner of Dimmit County, closing US83 and FM133 due to high water. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Catarina | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Catarina | - | no account filed |
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 85001562 in Record Group 79. |
| Dimmit County | All 3 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.