St. Joseph's Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Conejos County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 19895 Cty. Rd. 8, Capulin, 81124
When was it listed? December 2018
Category. district
Census division. West Conejos
National Register reference number. 100003276 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Church between 1994 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
22 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
13 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	La Jara Fire Department	UNKNOWN
18 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
15 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	LA JARA
26 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	LA JARA
22 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	POSO CREEK
20 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
2 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	La Jara Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Conejos County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Church: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Conejos County

Storms near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capulin, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
July 2009	Hail	Capulin	-	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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003276 in Record Group 79.
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.