Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“The Farmington Historic Downtown Commercial District is a 22 acres (8.9 ha) historic district in Farmington, New Mexico, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NFRP).”
Wikipedia article Farmington Historic Downtown Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
National Register reference number.02001551- 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
55 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Farmington Historic Downtown Commercial District
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 5 were 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
16
Debris and open burning
16
Natural
13
Arson/incendiarism
5
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Fireworks
2
Smoking
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
18 workings within 5 miles of Farmington Historic Downtown Commercial District: 11 unknowns, 6 producers, 1 past producer.
6 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Farmington, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Significant flooding plagued the Farmington area during the evening hours of August 1st. More than 2.5 inches of rain fell in 3 hours, but most of the rain fell in about a 30 minute time frame. Some of the hardest hit areas are described in the following paragraphs. ||The Webb Chevrolet-Toyota dealership and neighboring businesses along East Main Street between Gila St. and Hannon Dr. was described as a swamp. Weeds and shrubs were wrapped around the tires of each truck as water, mud and debris flooded into the lot. The force of the water moved one truck about six feet, and moved a nearby dumpster approximately 100 yards. Also in this area, a man whose car got stuck at the intersection of Cliffside Dr. and East Main got trapped in shallow, quick moving water. The man was rescued by firefighters and was unharmed.||Near the intersection of Largo St. and Railroad St., water was estimated to be 6 to 12 inches deep at the height of the event. Water damage was evident to at least two residences. ||An arroyo that crosses Hubbard St. near Peace Valley Road was flowing over the roadway. A high school senior attempted to drive through the waters, when her car was washed away. Her car traveled approximately 80 yards down the arroyo before she was rescued. She was unharmed, but her car was destroyed. After the waters receded, it became evident that Peace Valley Road was partially eroded away beneath the pavement.||Due to a holding pond that overflowed, five homes around the Country Club suffered significant damage, including one basement that was completely filled with water. Most of these homes were filled with no less than 6 inches of water on the ground level, resulting in damage of carpet, tile and other objects or furniture that was on the floor. Landscaping was completely eroded away, and fence lines were downed.||A mudslide was also reported on County Road 3000 at mile marker 9.5. The road was impassible until the mud was cleaned off the road.
A trained spotter measured a 65 mph wind gust. A single wide mobile home was pushed off its blocks with minor damage to the structure. Other wind damage reports include a tree limb falling through a roof, a mangled metal car port, damaged horse sheds, and 15 power poles blown down. Damage is an estimate.
Dry microburst winds estimated at near 60 MPH blew off part of the roof at the Farmington Police Station. Record wind gusts at the nearby Farmington Airport peaked at only 39 mph.
Several trees were blown down in Kiwanis Park from a likely microburst. Individual heard a huge crack when trees fell. The microburst also came with a wall of sand and a possible dust devil.
Animas River rose above bankful during the mid afternoon of the 11th and crested at minor flood stage briefly around 4pm before slowly falling through the overnight. Berg and Animas Parks experienced flooding along the riverwalk and many trails were inundated along the river for several hours. No damage to infrastructure was reported.
Heavy rain of 1/2 to 3/4 inch in about an hour produced considerable street and road flooding in the area of Farmington, Aztec and Bloomfield, with several homes flooded after mud and debris clogged drainage systems. Arroyos ran strong elsewhere across San Juan County with several areas of mud and rock slides which briefly blocked roads.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 83 issues,
452 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.
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.
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.
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