Amarillo Globe Dream House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Randall County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3104 S. Harrison, Amarillo, 79109
When was it listed? December 1997
Category. building
Census division. Amarillo
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97001532 - 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

369 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Amarillo Globe Dream House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 17,314 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	234
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	19
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	10
Natural	3

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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-13059
7 September 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2013-14249
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-12943
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2219
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-14035
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POTTER RD
2 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-12720
18 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-13513

Every fire recorded in Randall County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Amarillo Globe Dream House: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
(Facility) Asarco Zinc Smelter	Zinc	Plant
Armarillo Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Southwestern Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Llano Cemetery Historic District	0.8 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randall County	All 4 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.