Zapata Ranch Headquarters

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Alamosa County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5303 CO 150, Mosca, 81146
When was it listed? April 1993
Category. building
Census division. Mosca-Hooper
National Register reference number. 93000199 - 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Zapata Ranch Headquarters between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,700 acres in total. 9 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	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 August 2008	Natural	15 acres	Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve	JUNCTION
4 August 2008	Natural	167 acres	Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve	DENTON SPRINGS
14 August 1996	Natural	22 acres	Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve	FINGERS
22 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	San Luis Valley Field Office	ZAPA
20 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Dolores County Office	not named
6 June 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	307 acres	Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve	MEDANO RANCH
27 June 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	TELLURIUM
24 June 1992	Natural	3.0 acres	Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve	REWERS

Every fire recorded in Alamosa County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Zapata Ranch Headquarters: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sodium, Copper, 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
San Luis Lake	Sodium	Producer
Unknown	Copper, Gold	Prospect	hydrothermal vein
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Alamosa County

Storms near this property

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mosca, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 4 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Mosca	$8,000	A brief tornado destroyed a mobile home in a rural area.
May 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Mosca	-	A short-lived tornado occurred south of the Great Sand Dunes National Park.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Mosca	-	A landspout occurred over a field.
August 1997	Tornado (F0)	Mosca	-	A series of funnel clouds with a weak thundershower moved across northern Alamosa county near Mosca. The funnel clouds touched down briefly at least twice, causing no known damage.
August 2008	Hail	Mosca	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Mosca	-	no account filed
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mosca	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alamosa 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

2 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
	Superintendent's Residence, Great Sand Dunes National Monument	6.4 miles	1989
	Medano Ranch Headquarters	6.5 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000199 in Record Group 79.
Alamosa County	All 16 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.