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Lowry Ruin

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Montezuma County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 30 mi. NW of Cortez via U.S. 160, Pleasant View, 81331
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. structure
Census division. Pleasant View
National Register reference number. 66000253 - 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Lowry Ruin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,856 acres in total. 91 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
Natural	91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	SQUIRREL
3 September 1995	Natural	5.0 acres	Southwest District, Montrose	CROSS
17 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	CROSS
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	MUDDY
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	POINT
13 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	SQUAW
1 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	CROSS CANYON
8 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	ZEBRA

Every fire recorded in Montezuma County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lowry Ruin: 6 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Blue Eagle Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Stratiform
Roberta Jean Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Stratiform
Blue Eagle	Uranium, Vanadium	Prospect
Buckeye	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Cross No. 1	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Le-Ru Mines	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Roberta Jean	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Yellow Lizzard	Uranium, Vanadium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Montezuma County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant View, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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	Debris Flow	Pleasant View	$500	Heavy rain from thunderstorms resulted in mud and debris on Road BB near Pleasant View, between roads 12 and 13.
July 2001	Hail	Pleasant View	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montezuma 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 66000253 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montezuma County	All 21 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.