Tipton-Black Willow Ranch Historic District

Built in 1862. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Tipton-Black Willow Ranch Historic District, in Mora County and San Miguel County in New Mexico, near Watrous, dates from 1862. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”
Wikipedia article Tipton-Black Willow Ranch Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Mora County · listed in 2001 · category: District · built in 1862.

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

The listing

Listed as. Tipton--Black Willow Ranch Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3 mi. E of Watrous, Watrous, 87753
When was it listed? June 2001
Category. district
Census division. Wagon Mound
When was it built? 1862
National Register reference number. 00001287 - 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Tipton-Black Willow Ranch Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 301 acres in total. 7 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	7
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
8 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	POWERLINE
6 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Las Vegas District	PHOENIX
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COTTONWOOD
10 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DOGIE
5 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STARKEY
28 July 2016	Natural	2.0 acres	Las Vegas District	VALMORA
25 July 2016	Natural	273 acres	Las Vegas District	BLACK WILLOW RANCH
13 July 2017	Natural	1.2 acres	Las Vegas District	SCHOOL FIRE

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tipton-Black Willow Ranch Historic District: 6 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
B.T.U. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Storms near this property

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watrous, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 10 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
June 2007	Hail	Watrous	$2,000	The hail ranged from 0.88 to 1.50 inches in diameter. Damage was reported to windows, trees and vegetation. A funnel cloud was also observed.
May 1993	Hail	Watrous	$500	The public reported nickel-size hail in Watrous at 1630 MST.
August 1998	Hail	Watrous	-	Quarter size hail was reported in both Watrous and Valmora.
August 2012	Hail	Watrous	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Watrous	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Watrous	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Watrous	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Watrous	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Watrous	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Watrous	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mora 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

1 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
	Watrous	4.2 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001287 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mora County	All 14 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.