Photograph by From the National Archives RG92-F-7-9, Public domain. Via
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Fort Bayard Museum and Education Building
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“The Fort Bayard Historic District encompasses the area that was the location of Fort Bayard, a United States Army military installation north of present-day Santa Clara, New Mexico. Founded in 1866, the fort at first provided security against Native American attacks on settlers during the settlement of the region in the 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Fort Bayard Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 45 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.02000726- 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
124 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Fort Bayard Museum and Education Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 737 acres in total. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
71
Natural
14
Recreation and ceremony
10
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Smoking
8
Debris and open burning
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
95 workings within 5 miles of Fort Bayard Museum and Education Building: 81 past producers, 6 producers, 6 prospects, 1 occurrence.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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 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.
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.
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