Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 5

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Morton County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Santa Fe Trail--Cimarron National Grassland Segment 5 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7 mi. N. of US 56 along Cty. Rd. 16, Wilburton, 67953
When was it listed? April 2013
Category. site
Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
Township. Richfield township
National Register reference number. 13000136 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 5 between 1993 and 2020, burning about 18,466 acres in total. 15 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	15
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
11 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SALTWATER
9 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	J
5 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	BATTERY
31 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FISH POND #1
31 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FISH POND #2
17 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	240 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	COMPANION
9 July 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	GAS
5 July 1998	Natural	100 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	RUSS

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Storms near this property

53 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilburton, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 34 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	A measured wind gust of 65 mph at the mesonet station CGLK1 Cimarron.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	Just east of Cimarron.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Wilburton	-	Rainfall of 1.13 inches was measured.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	Winds gusted to 60 MPH.
August 2014	Hail	Wilburton	-	There was also wind gusts to around 55 MPH with the hail.
August 2014	Hail	Wilburton	-	Winds were estimated to be 50 MPH while the hail was falling.
August 2013	Hail	Wilburton	-	There were also 3 evergreen trees on the property that were uprooted.
August 2013	Hail	Wilburton	-	There were also 3 evergreen trees on the property that were uprooted.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 miles per hour.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	Three evergreen trees were uprooted by the high wind. There was also hail that was 1.5 inches in diameter.
May 2011	Hail	Wilburton	-	The hail covered the ground and accumulated to six inches deep along the side of buildings. The wind gusted to 60 MPH.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	2.5 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2021	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
October 2012	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Wilburton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morton 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
	Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 4	4.9 miles	2013
	Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 3	6.9 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000136 in Record Group 79.
Morton 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.
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.