Goodson Memorial School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. NM 456, approx. 4 mi. W of jct. with NM 406, Seneca, 88419
When was it listed? January 2003
Category. building
Also known as. New Deal in New Mexico MPS
Census division. Clayton North
National Register reference number. 02001693 - 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Goodson Memorial School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 977 acres in total. 4 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	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
20 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Cimarron District	20-20370195X
12 August 2000	Natural	600 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SKILES
28 June 2011	Natural	16 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MOCK
30 May 2020	Natural	360 acres	Cimarron District	POTTER

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Goodson Memorial School: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Iron, Copper. 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
Black Mesa Prospect	Silver, Iron, Copper	Past Producer
Independence Group	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Pit #56 60 S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Pit #77 06 S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seneca, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 16 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2023	Hail	Seneca	$10,000	Ping pong size hail was reported to have broken one window and several west facing vehicle windshields.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$1,000	Combination of strong wind gusts and hail broke windows at home in Seneca.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	The Union County emergency manager estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts at Clayton Lake State Park from a severe thunderstorm.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	A trained spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts along with lots of blowing dust kicked up ahead of a severe thunderstorm. The blowing dust resulted in reduced visibility at his location.
June 2023	Funnel Cloud	Seneca	-	A funnel cloud was observed north of Clayton near Rabbit Ears Mountain.
September 2021	Hail	Seneca	-	A trained spotter near Seneca reported quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm tracking southward through the area.
May 2019	Hail	Seneca	-	Quarter size hail reported at Clayton Lake.
June 2019	Hail	Seneca	-	Quarter size hail reported in Seneca.
August 2017	Hail	Seneca	-	Hail up to the size of pennies in Seneca.
May 2017	Hail	Seneca	-	Hail up to the size of quarters near Seneca.
April 2016	Hail	Seneca	-	Hail ranged from quarters to half dollar size near Seneca.
May 2016	Hail	Seneca	-	Quarter size hail.
August 2016	Hail	Seneca	-	Nickel size hail east of Seneca.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Spotter reported a severe wind gust moved through the area with a thunderstorm on the 3rd.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Thunderstorm with pea size hail and high winds blew down fencing at coop observer residence.
June 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001693 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 11 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.