Los Alamos County, New Mexico

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Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph	Property	Type	Listed	Reference
	Bandelier CCC Historic District	district	1987	87001452
	Bayo Road	structure	2003	03001141
	Bayo Road	structure	2003	03001141
	Grant Road	structure	2004	03001409
	Grant Road	structure	2004	03001409
	Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory	district	1966	66000893
	Lujan Road	structure	2005	04001478
	United States Post Office-Los Alamos, New Mexico	building	2015	15000493

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 385 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 26 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 197 of them, burning about 383 acres. 153 started naturally and 9 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 58 reports for this county, causing no deaths, no injuries and about $1,509,800,000 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 1 working inside this county. It is closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

• Los Alamos

  Los Alamos census division · 87544 · Near Acid Canyon · Guaje Mountain quadrangle

  21 sheets, 1892 to 2002

• Upper Frijoles Crossing

  White Rock census division · 87544 · Near Escobas Mesa · Frijoles quadrangle

  21 sheets, 1892 to 2002

• White Rock

  White Rock census division · 87547 · Near Pajarito Canyon · White Rock quadrangle

  20 sheets, 1892 to 2002

The complete index, with nothing left out. Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.

• Fuller Lodge
• Romero Cabin