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Photograph of Mesa Verde Administrative District
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mesa Verde Administrative District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Mesa Verde Administrative District is a set of six National Park Service buildings within Mesa Verde National Park, constructed between 1921 and 1927 in the Pueblo Revival style. Located on Chapin Mesa, these were the structures built by the Park Service to use culturally relevant architectural traditions in park architecture.”

Wikipedia article Mesa Verde Administrative District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Montezuma County · listed in 1987 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • Address. Area at head of Spruce Canyon off park service road, Mesa Verde National Park, 81330
  • When was it listed? May 1987
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Mancos
  • Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture
  • National Register reference number. 87001410 - 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

506 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 506 fires within 5 miles of Mesa Verde Administrative District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,808 acres in total. 499 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
Natural499
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUte Mountain Ute AgencyFORT
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreMesa Verde National ParkSUN POINT
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreMesa Verde National ParkLOST
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreMesa Verde National ParkJOURNEY
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMesa Verde National ParkCHICK
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreMesa Verde National ParkMOCCASIN
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreMesa Verde National ParkWILD HORSE
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreMesa Verde National ParkLONG

Every fire recorded in Montezuma County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mesa Verde Administrative District: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mesa Verde QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Chapin Mesa Village Historic District0.2 miles2024
Rock Springs Ranger Station3.8 miles2024
Mesa Verde National Park5.4 miles1966
Park Point Fire Lookout6.9 miles2024

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001410 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montezuma CountyAll 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.