Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas

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The included categories are required for this article to be a single entry point to the multple lists involved here. Hmains (talk) 04:24, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Change sort order instead of italicizing?

Currently the counties with the most sites are indicated by italics. How about changing the default sort order to descending number of sites instead? --lizardo_tx (talk) 15:31, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Alphabetical makes it easier to update when new sites are added, instead of searching through the list trying to find a specific county. 25or6to4 (talk) 20:24, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

NHL?

Nothing in this article mentions or explains what the table's column headings mean. ("# of Sites" and "# of NHLs") Steve Stair (talk) 13:04, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

I agree. I came here to say this and found you did 5 years ago. Wiki name (talk) 01:41, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

grouping into regions

Counts by county as of April 2016

Currently each separate county is split out into a separate list-article, including many with just one NRHP site included, which seems ridiculous to me. There's ongoing discussion at wt:NRHP about splitting out differently. For Texas, I am wondering if using the state's defined 12 economic development regions would work. (Thanks to User:25or6to4 for making nice graphic of counties' counts of NRHPs!)

(Aside, first: there are 4 geographic regions which can be subdivided into 12 subregions, by this partition, but it doesn't break out by counties.)

Also there is quite a discussion and an elaborate partition of TExas proposed at WikiVoyage's Talk page for Texas

These 12 economic development regions are:

• High Plains (118 NRHPs across 41 counties), quite manageable as one list-article IMO
• Northwest (145, with 60 concentrated in one county)
• Metroplex (i had this counted, but lost it. Includes Dallas-Fort Worth.)
• Upper East (i had this counted, but lost it)
• Upper Rio Grande (170 NRHPs across 6 counties: 54, 88, 10, 5, 11, 12)
• West (119 NRHPs across 30 counties)
• Central (306)
• Capital (_ NRHPs with 190 in Austin's county)
• Southeast (139 NRHPs)
• Alamo (_ in San Antonio's county, _ in another, plus __ other)
• Gulf Coast (441 NRHPs, with 268 in Houston's county, 75 in another, and 98 in all the rest)
• South (159 NRHPs)

There are four big regions to the left side with sparse numbers of NRHPs spread across many counties (High Plains 118, Northwest 145, West 119, South 159), I would definitely like to combine the separate county list-articles into those four groups. The westernmost, Upper Rio Grande is okay to put into one group, too, though its smallest of 6 is just 5. That takes care of about 35 of the one-NRHP counties.

For the seven other Ec Dev regions, I am not so sure, as those groupings get large in count. There are only about 13 one-NRHP counties in these regions. Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin and some other cities could be split out to make them more manageable though. --doncram 02:41, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Hey, Texas Comptroller's Thirteen Regions is similar but breaks out one more, making Alamo smaller. It names them nicely. --doncram 03:20, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Eh, I am inclined now just to do the Texas Panhandle, i.e. group together its 26 counties. And I just posted to that effect at wt:NRHP#Texas Panhandle merger of county list-articles. --Doncram (talk) 23:20, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Hmm, looking for regions definitions again, from here and here I find that the Texas Historical Commission has a partition of the state into 10 "Trail Regions", as shown in this PDF map. The regions were defined The regions are:

• Plains Trail Region (which includes the Panhandle area and some more)
• Forts Trail Region
• Lakes Trail Region
• Forest Trail Region Texas Forest Trail - 35 counties
• Brazos Trail Region Texas Brazos Trail - 18 counties
• Mountains Trail Region
• Pecos Trail Region
• Hill Country Trail Region
• Independence Trail Region
• Tropical Trail Region

Please watch [[1]] where i will denote which counties are in which region. --Doncram (talk) 17:35, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

In 1968 Texas hosted the World's fair, known as HemisFair '68, in San Antonio, Texas. In connection with this boost in international attention, the Texas Department of Transportation designated ten 650-mile circular driving regions that encompassed the entire state of Texas. These trails saw little attention after their creation until in the late 1990s when the Texas Historical Commission adopted these trails as their Heritage Trail Program. The Texas Forts Trail was the first of the ten trails to be reinstated. (from Texas Forest Trail article)

References

The NRHPs listed in broad districts' list-articles would be greatly reduced by NRHPs segregated out to city lists:

• Bexar County, in "Alamo" econ dev region has 161 of which about 18 would go to broad district, 143 to San Antonio. San Antonio not yet split out.

I'll start identifying the counties in each econ dev region, for this overall list article, at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas/ByEconDevArea. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 05:56, 3 April 2023 (UTC)