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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Alamosa County · listed in 2025 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Alamosa Spanish Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 8001-8079 Road South, Alamoosa, 81101
- When was it listed? December 2025
- Category. site
- Census division. Alamosa
- National Register reference number. 100012458 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
155 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Alamosa Spanish Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 208 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 88 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | ALAMOSA |
| 30 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Denver County | not named |
| 29 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | CSFS-Alamosa District | not named |
| 28 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Denver County | not named |
| 20 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | ALAMOSA |
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Alamosa Spanish Cemetery: 12 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alamosa Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sacred Heart Catholic Church | 1.5 miles | 1998 |
 | Alamosa County Courthouse | 1.5 miles | 1995 |
 | Alamosa Post Office | 1.5 miles | 2009 |
 | Husung Hardware | 1.6 miles | 2000 |
 | Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot | 1.6 miles | 1993 |
 | St. Thomas Episcopal Church | 1.6 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012458 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.