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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Costilla County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Chama Sociedad Proteccion Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU) Lodge Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. SW corner of Cty. Rds. 223 & L7, Chama, 81152
- When was it listed? December 2018
- Category. building
- Also known as. Culebra River Villages of Costilla County MPS
- Census division. San Luis
- National Register reference number. 100003273 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Chama Sociedad Proteccion Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU) Lodge Hall between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 11 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 7 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 30 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 30 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 26 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 25 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
Storms near this property
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chama, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2022: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Chama | - | Flooding along County Road R and the San Luis Peoples ditch near San Luis. |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepcion | 0.4 miles | 2012 |
 | Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo | 1.5 miles | 2012 |
 | Capilla de San Isidro | 1.8 miles | 2013 |
 | Plaza de San Luis de la Culebra | 3.2 miles | 1978 |
 | San Luis Bridge | 3.7 miles | 1985 |
| "Sierras y Colores" Mural | 3.8 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003273 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.