Capilla de San Juan Bautista

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Capilla de San Juan Bautista (English: The Chapel of Saint John the Baptist) is a historic church in La Garita, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Capilla de San Juan Bautista, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Saguache County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. NW of La Garita, La Garita, 81132
When was it listed? February 1980
Category. building
Census division. Center
National Register reference number. 80000926 - 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Capilla de San Juan Bautista between 1993 and 2013, burning about 5 acres in total. 3 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	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
31 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Luis Valley Field Office	PENITENTE
22 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	SIDEWINDER
1 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Saguache County	not named
9 June 1996	Natural	3.0 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	SPEARMAN
18 April 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Saguache County	not named
5 March 2013	Natural	under an acre	San Luis Valley Field Office	BLUE SKY
1 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	CSFS-Alamosa District	not named

Every fire recorded in Saguache County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Capilla de San Juan Bautista: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Gold. 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
Crystal Hill Mine	Gold	Plant
Unnamed Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Occurrence	1910
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Saguache County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Garita, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 3 hail. 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 2009	Hail	La Garita	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	La Garita	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	La Garita	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saguache 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 80000926 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saguache County	All 7 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.