San Luis Southern Railway Trestle

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The San Luis Southern Railway Trestle, in Costilla County, Colorado near Blanca, Colorado, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article San Luis Southern Railway Trestle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Costilla County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure · built in 1910.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. abandoned section of Costilla Cty Rd. 12, Blanca, 81123
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. structure
Also known as. Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 MPS
Census division. Blanca
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number. 03001361 - 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of San Luis Southern Railway Trestle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
27 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
27 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
5 July 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
27 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
28 April 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
28 April 1993	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
28 April 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
26 April 1993	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named

Every fire recorded in Costilla County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanca, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 2 tornado, 1 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 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Blanca	-	Brief landspout tornado.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Blanca	-	A few county roads were washed out due to heavy rains from thunderstorms in Blanca, CO.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	Blanca	-	Tornado with condensation funnel just off the ground. The tornado was in open country and caused no known damage.

Every storm recorded in Costilla 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

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
	Fort Garland	6.9 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001361 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Costilla County	All 13 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.
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.