Fort Garland

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Fort Garland (1858-1883), Colorado, United States, was designed to house two companies of soldiers to protect settlers in the San Luis Valley, then in the Territory of New Mexico (1850-1912). It was named for General John Garland (1793-1861), then commander of the United States Army's Military District of New Mexico.”
Wikipedia article Fort Garland, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Costilla County · listed in 1970 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. On CO 159, 1 block S of U.S. 10, Fort Garland, 81133
When was it listed? February 1970
Category. district
Census division. Blanca
National Register reference number. 70000156 - 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fort Garland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
30 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
27 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
27 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
15 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
1 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
5 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
4 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named

Every fire recorded in Costilla 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
	San Luis Southern Railway Trestle	6.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000156 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.