McIntire Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“McIntire Ranch, in Conejos County, Colorado near Sanford, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The listing included the remains of ranch buildings on a 14.2 acres (5.7 ha) area.”
Wikipedia article McIntire Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Conejos County · listed in 2008 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Approx. 1.5 mi. N. of Co. Rd. V, Sanford, 81151
When was it listed? March 2008
Category. site
Census division. La Jara
National Register reference number. 08000204 - 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of McIntire Ranch between 1993 and 2013, burning about 1,005 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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 May 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Conejos County Office	not named
13 May 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Conejos County Office	not named
8 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Dolores County Office	not named
6 April 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Dolores County Office	not named
4 April 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Conejos County Office	not named
21 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	918 acres	San Luis Valley Field Office	STOCKADE
17 April 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver County	not named
15 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Dolores County Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Conejos County

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 McIntire Ranch: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Conejos County

Storms near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanford, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. 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 2010	Hail	Sanford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conejos 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
	Pike's Stockade	1.0 miles	1966
	La Jara Depot	7.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000204 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Conejos 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.
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.