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Photograph of Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano is a 380-acre (1.5 km2) historic district in Burnet County and Llano County, Texas, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”

Wikipedia article Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Burnet County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District--Fairland to Llano - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Roughly aolong RR tracks from Fairland to Llano, Kingsland, 78609
  • When was it listed? October 1997
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 97001161 - 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

123 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,150 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
6 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSLAB FIRE
29 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARK RD 4 (11-0116)
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceELLEN WILLIAMS TRACTOR FIRE
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16-027513
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 29 (16-0117)
14 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS CHAPARRAL (16-0115)

Every fire recorded in Burnet County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: REE, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baringer Hill MineREE, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zirconium, Beryllium, Lead, Uranium, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Molybdenum, Lithium, Rubidium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, ZincPast Producer1887
Road Material PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rose QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Williams MineREE, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerAllanite, Fluorite
Badu Hill MineFeldspar, REEPast Producer1936
Williams MineFeldspar, REEPast Producer1936
Bilbrough Marble Longhorn Cream QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cactus Canyon Llano QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Premier Rose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Burnet 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

2 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
State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River3.2 miles1996
Park Road 4 Historic District6.4 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001161 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Burnet CountyAll 6 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.