Photograph of Lamesa Farm Workers Community Historic District — Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lamesa Farm Workers Community Historic Ditrict

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Lamesa Farm Workers Community Historic District in Los Ybanez in Dawson County, Texas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is a 50 acres (20 ha) historic district which included 32 contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Lamesa Farm Workers Community Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Dawson County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of US 87 and US 180, Los Ybanez, 79331
When was it listed? August 1993
Category. district
Census division. Lamesa
National Register reference number. 93000771 - 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lamesa Farm Workers Community Historic Ditrict between 2005 and 2017, burning about 335 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	2
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
6 August 2013	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAWRENCE FIRE
26 July 2013	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MERRICK FIRE
26 July 2013	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MERRICK FIRE 2
16 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAMBRIGHT FIRE
19 March 2012	Natural	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ESKEW
13 March 2014	Smoking	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BYRD
8 February 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COOK
15 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Dawson 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 93000771 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dawson County	All 1 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.