BlockFrom the record
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Costilla County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Plaza de San Luis de la Culebra
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- Address. CO 159, San Luis, 81152
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. district
- Also known as. Culebra River Villages of Costilla County MPS
- Census division. San Luis
- National Register reference number. 78000837 - 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
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Plaza de San Luis de la Culebra between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 11 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 26 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 25 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 22 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 24 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 67 acres | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 6 January 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | not named |
Storms near this property
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Luis, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Hail | San Luis | $450,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | San Luis | $30,000 | The San Luis Peoples Ditch had two breaches, flooding two properties. Some house experience flooding of basements and crawl spaces. Several county roads were washed out. |
| May 2008 | Hail | San Luis | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | San Luis Bridge | 0.6 miles | 1985 |
| "Sierras y Colores" Mural | 0.8 miles | 2023 | |
 | Rito Seco Creek Culvert | 0.9 miles | 2002 |
 | A.A. Salazar House | 1.0 miles | 1998 |
 | Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo | 2.2 miles | 2012 |
 | Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepcion | 2.8 miles | 2012 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000837 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.