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Photograph of Henry M. and Annie V. Trueheart House
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Henry M. and Annie V. Trueheart House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Trueheart House is a residence of historic significance located in the town of Fort Davis, the seat and largest town of Jeff Davis County in the U.S. state of Texas. The house was built in 1898 and, along with the surrounding property, was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1996.”

Wikipedia article Henry M. and Annie V. Trueheart House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jeff Davis County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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 4 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Trueheart, Henry M. and Annie V., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Jct. of 7th St. and Court Ave., Fort Davis, 79734
  • When was it listed? September 1996
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fort Davis
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 96001014 - 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Henry M. and Annie V. Trueheart House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 6,915 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined23
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPOT FIRES
25 September 2015Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTNING TREE FIRE
15 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 166 FIRE
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTONWOOD III
8 August 2010Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPROUL FIRE
21 August 2009Natural250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE PARK AREA
20 August 2009Natural1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST KEESEY CANYON FIRE
4 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grierson-Sproul House0.2 miles1982
Jeff Davis County Courthouse0.4 miles2002
Hotel Limpia0.5 miles2025
Fort Davis, Post Hospital0.8 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001014 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jeff Davis CountyAll 5 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.