BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Brewster County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Terlingua Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- Address. 7 mi. W of jct. of TX 118 and TX 170, Terlingua, 79852
- When was it listed? March 1996
- Category. district
- Census division. Alpine
- National Register reference number. 96000132 - 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
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Terlingua Historic District in 2008, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2008 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Terlingua Historic District: 12 past producers, 9 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Occurrences | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Occurrences | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Brown Prospects | Mercury | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Chisos Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1897, 1903, 1943 | |
| Colquitt Tigner Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1925, 1934 | |
| Coltrin's Camp Occurrence | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Lafarelle | Mercury | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Le Roi Prospect | Mercury | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Little Thirty-Eight Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1933 | |
| Mariposa Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1884, 1895, 1945 |
Storms near this property
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terlingua, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Terlingua | $70,000 | Wind damage occurred to several buildings on a ranch located on Taurus Mesa. Much of the damage was limited to corrugated metal that was strewn across the countryside. Rear-flank downdraft (RFD) winds were thought to have been the mechanism for the high winds. The RFD then hit State Highway 118 where the Longhorn Ranch Motel sustained wind damage. A 12x20 foot sign was blown down as well as damage to doors and the roof.The Red Cross determined that 2 houses were destroyed and 6 houses sustained major damage in the area near the motel. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Terlingua | $50,000 | Several structures at Terlingua Ranch sustained roof damage and a few barns were destroyed. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Terlingua | - | Park rangers at the Big Bend reported flood water rushing through Long Draw Creek over FM 170. The time of occurrence is estimated by radar. No damage was reported. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Terlingua | - | A thunderstorm moved across Brewster County and produced a 64 mph wind gust at Persimmon Gap. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Terlingua | - | A thunderstorm moved over Brewster County and produced quarter sized hail at Terlingua Ranch Lodge. The hail lasted fifteen minutes. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Terlingua | - | Several people between Texas Highway 118 and Terlingua Ranch Lodge reported penny size hail. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Terlingua | - | Hail covered the road into the lodge for 10 miles. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Terlingua | - | Dime size hail covered the ground up to two inches deep. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Terlingua | - | Heavy rains from tropical thunderstorms caused flash flooding on State Highway 170 near Terlingua. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Terlingua | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Terlingua | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Terlingua | - | no account filed |
| October 2009 | Hail | Terlingua | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Terlingua | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Terlingua | - | 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 96000132 in Record Group 79. |
| Brewster County | All 14 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.
- 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.