Trujillo Homestead

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Trujillo Homesteads are a historic ranch site near Mosca, Alamosa County, Colorado, not far from the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The area was first settled in the 1860s by Teofilo Trujillo, a Mexican sheep farmer.”
Wikipedia article Trujillo Homesteads, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Alamosa County · listed in 2004 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Unnamed two-track road, 9.3 mi. NE of MOsca, MOsca, 81136
When was it listed? February 2004
Category. district
Census division. Mosca-Hooper
National Register reference number. 03001544 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trujillo Homestead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sodium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Sodium	Producer	Trona

Every working recorded in Alamosa County

Storms near this property

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names MOsca, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 4 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Mosca	$8,000	A brief tornado destroyed a mobile home in a rural area.
May 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Mosca	-	A short-lived tornado occurred south of the Great Sand Dunes National Park.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Mosca	-	A landspout occurred over a field.
August 1997	Tornado (F0)	Mosca	-	A series of funnel clouds with a weak thundershower moved across northern Alamosa county near Mosca. The funnel clouds touched down briefly at least twice, causing no known damage.
August 2008	Hail	Mosca	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Mosca	-	no account filed
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mosca	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alamosa 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Medano Ranch Headquarters	3.2 miles	2004
	Howard Store	7.8 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001544 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alamosa County	All 16 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.
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.
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.