Las Vegas, New Mexico

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• San Miguel County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 89 shown

• Acequia Madrelisted 1987
• Arturo Angel Houselisted 1985
• Charles and Lewis Arthur E. N. Houselisted 1985
• AT & SF Roundhouselisted 1985
• Bean-Newlee Houselisted 1985
• Bridge Street Historic Districtlisted 1978
• Building at 1214 Bridgelisted 1985
• Lowery Clevenger Houselisted 1985
• James Cook Houselisted 1985
• Distrito de las Escuelaslisted 1980
• Douglas Avenue Schoollisted 1983
• Douglas-Sixth Street Historic Districtlisted 1983

Every listing in San Miguel County

Surveyed buildings and structures 10 records

• Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Depot, 500 Railroad Avenue, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Carnegie Library, 500 National Avenue, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Castaneda Hotel, Railroad Avenue, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Charles Ilfeld Building, 224 North Plaza, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Don Jose Albino Baca House, Old Santa Fe Trail, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 20 photographs
• Las Vegas City Hall, 626 Sixth Street, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Montezuma Hotel, Gallinas Canyon, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 10 photographs
• Plaza Hotel, 230 North Plaza, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Plaza, Bounded by North Plaza, East Plaza, South Plaza, and West Plaza, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Rawlins Building, 515 Railroad Avenue, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 2 photographs

Las Vegas fell from 13,753 to 13,166 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1889 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000

1 chapter about Las Vegas from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Las Vegas between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,676 acres in total. 22 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Arriba
• East Las Vegas (historical)
• San Antonio
• Las Vegas Town
• Los Vigiles
• Agua Zarca

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Las Vegas: 18 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Las Vegas in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 45 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado, 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.

Every storm recorded in San Miguel County

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 7,735 issues, 42,362 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 37 issues spread across its run from 1872 to 1907, 113,177 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915788. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.