Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery

Built in 1866. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery in Las Animas County, Colorado, at Medina Plaza, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.”
Wikipedia article Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 2019 · category: District · built in 1866.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. CO Hwy. 12, Medina Plaza, 81091
When was it listed? November 2019
Category. district
Census division. Weston
When was it built? 1866
National Register reference number. 100004628 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery between 1992 and 2018, burning about 136 acres in total. 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 August 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
26 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
15 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Las Animas County	not named
26 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
25 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
21 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
20 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
19 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Las Animas 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 Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas 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
	Bridge over Burro Canon	3.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004628 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Las Animas County	All 26 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.