Photograph of Administration Building (Randolph Air Force Base) — Photograph by Rich McFadden, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Base Administration Building

Built in 1931 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Administration Building at Randolph Air Force Base is headquarters for the 12th Flying Training Wing and located at Universal City, northeast of San Antonio, county of Bexar, in the U.S. state of Texas. The building is referred to as the Taj Mahal, or simply the Taj.”
Wikipedia article Administration Building (Randolph Air Force Base), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 161 National Register listings published here for Bexar County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1931, Colonial Revival architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Randolph AFB, Randolph AFB, 78148
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. building
Census division. San Antonio Northeast
When was it built? 1931
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 87001434 - 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

222 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Base Administration Building between 2006 and 2016, burning about 1,097 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	167
Debris and open burning	20
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CBFD1100798
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SZFD111324
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SZFD111302
3 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SZFD131529
20 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SZFD121381

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Base Administration Building: 9 producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Converse	Clay	Unknown
Beck Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Beck Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cibola Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Gem Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Gem Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Schaffer Road Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shaefer Road Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Bexar 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Randolph Field Historic District	0.3 miles	1996
John S. Harrison House	3.1 miles	2006
Selma Stagecoach Stop and Post Office	3.4 miles	2017
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek	6.3 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bexar County	All 161 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.