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One of 56 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rio Vista Farm Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The listing
- Address. 800--801 Rio Vista Rd., Socorro, 79927
- Category. district
- Census division. El Paso East
- Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 96000131 - 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
7 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rio Vista Farm Historic District in 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EASTLAKE |
| 4 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TYDERWOOD |
| 3 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSLYN |
| 25 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GREEN DALE |
| 8 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SUNSET HILLS |
| 30 July 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PASEO DE SURTE |
| 30 October 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RUDI KUEFNER |
Storms near this property
31 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Socorro, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 hail, 11 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 10 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2009 | Hail | Socorro | 10 hurt, $100,000,000 | Far east El Paso was hardest hit by this second supercell, with extensive golfball to possibly tennis ball size hail falling for 20 minutes. Thousands of automobiles were damaged, with several dealerships suffering much loss. Skylights were destroyed, roofs damaged and windows broken on thousands of buildings. Several injuries were reported from hailstones as well. |
| November 2016 | Hail | Socorro | $300,000,000 | Supercell thunderstorms (very rare for November in this area) affected much of El Paso. The strongest, which actually weakened before moving into the United States, produced golf ball hail over far east El Paso into Horizon City. This caused record breaking insurance claims for a single hail event with a total of $200 million damage to vehicles and $100 million to homes. This doubled the previous record from 9-16-09. Flooding also occurred due to excessive hail amounts plugging up drains. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Socorro | $20,000,000 | The supercell continued southeastward along I-10 for several miles. According to TxDOT, hundreds of vehicles along the interstate and other highways suffered extensive damage. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Socorro | $10,000,000 | The supercell continued southeastward and dropped golfball size hail on El Paso's lower valley area. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Socorro | $50,000 | Flooding was reported along Rio Vista, Coker and Thunder Roads in Socorro. Water threatened 17 homes with 15-20 people being forced to evacuate. A 4 inch gas line was exposed near Stockyard and Alyssa Roads due to washout. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Socorro | $20,000 | Flash flooding affected far east El Paso. Reports from TxDOT included water covering State Highway 375 near Del Valle High School and wzter covering Montana Street east of Highway 375. Also, an arroyo overflow closed part of I-10 at Eastlake Boulevard. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Socorro | $20,000 | A roof was blown off of a house in Horizon City. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Socorro | $10,000 | Winds estimated at more than 60 mph downed numerous trees near Del Valle High School in El Paso's lower valley. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Socorro | $5,000 | Report of a tree knocked down onto a trailer near Yarbrough and Alameda. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Socorro | $5,000 | Horizon Boulevard below Horizon City was impassable to due rapidly moving water and debris. Floodwaters entered at least one home in the Sparks subdivision. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Socorro | $5,000 | Two inches of rain fell within 30 minutes in Socorro. A couple of roads were closed and a home was flooded with knee-deep water. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Socorro | - | Flooding was reported in a strip mall parking lot on North Loop Drive north of Horizon Blvd with people playing in boats. Moderate street flooding was also reported along Socorro road about 2 miles northwest of Socorro. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Socorro | - | Social Media report, time estimated based on radar. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Socorro | - | Near Kanozo Road in Horizon City. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Socorro | - | Love's Truck Stop in Sparks off I-10. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Socorro | - | KFOX reported flooding in the Socorro area near Thunder and Rio Vista Drive. Streets near the intersection had to be blocked off. Some people had to wait for the water to recede to get to their homes. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Socorro | - | Reports of extensive street flooding with water well over the curbs at intersection of Rojas and Joe Battle. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Socorro | - | A weather spotter reported a total of .61 inches of rainfall in 23 minutes. This resulted in some minor street flooding in the area. |
| September 2011 | Flash Flood | Socorro | - | Amateur radio reported 6 inches of water covering Darrington Street in Horizon City. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Socorro | - | Hail up to golf ball size was reported at the intersection of Interstate 10 and George Dieter. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Socorro | - | Dime sized hail was reported at Horizon Blvd. and Interstate 10. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Socorro | - | Golf ball size hail was reported in Horizon City by the Department of Public Safety. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Socorro | - | Flooding was reported at the intersection of Zaragoza and Rojas in El Paso. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Socorro | - | A slow moving thunderstorm produced nearly 2 inches of rain in a short time, resulting in flooded streets in the Horizon City area. Gateway West was closed in the Sparks subdivision. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Socorro | - | no account filed |
| November 2016 | Hail | Socorro | - | no account filed |
| October 2015 | Hail | Socorro | - | no account filed |
| October 2015 | Hail | Socorro | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Socorro | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Socorro | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Socorro | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Socorro Mission, Church | 2.2 miles | 1972 |
 | Ysleta Mission | 4.2 miles | 1972 |
 | Franklin Canal | 4.6 miles | 1992 |
 | San Elizario Historic District | 5.3 miles | 1997 |
 | Presidio Chapel of San Elizario | 5.3 miles | 1972 |
| El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 | 6.0 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96000131 in Record Group 79. |
| El Paso County | All 56 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.