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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 2001 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tierra Amarilla AFS P-8 Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- Address. 9.0 mi. SE of Tierra Amarilla on NM 112, Tierra Amarilla, 87575
- When was it listed? February 2001
- Category. district
- Census division. Tierra Amarilla
- National Register reference number. 00000342 - 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
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Tierra Amarilla AFS P-8 Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 16 acres in total. 20 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 | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | HERON |
| 30 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | ZEKE |
| 24 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | PINON |
| 20 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | NORTH RAMP |
| 14 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TWIN |
| 1 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | JAKES |
| 8 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | GAME |
| 7 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MUD |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tierra Amarilla AFS P-8 Historic District: 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Vado Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit No. 60-54-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Materials Pit No. 70-15-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect |
Storms near this property
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tierra Amarilla, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Hail | Tierra Amarilla | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plaza Blanca Historic District | 6.3 miles | 1986 | |
| La Puente Historic District | 6.3 miles | 1985 | |
| Plaza Blanca Community Ditch | 6.5 miles | 1986 | |
| La Puente Community Ditch | 6.6 miles | 1986 | |
| Tony Manzanares House | 6.8 miles | 1985 | |
| Burns Lake Bungalow | 7.7 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000342 in Record Group 79. |
| Rio Arriba County | All 46 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.