Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory Historic District

Built in 1935 (Pueblo Revival Style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory Historic District is a historic district in Cibola National Forest near Fort Wingate, New Mexico which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for McKinley County · listed in 2003 · category: District · built in 1935, Pueblo Revival Style architecture.

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

The listing

Address. Fort Wingate Work Center, Cibola National Forest, Fort Wingate, 87316
When was it listed? May 2003
Category. district
Census division. Red Rock
When was it built? 1935
Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture
National Register reference number. 03000488 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2009	Natural	5.7 acres	Cibola National Forest	FT. WINGATE
19 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	400
6 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	ANDREWS
6 August 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	Cibola National Forest	DAY AFTER
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	WINGATE
3 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	RON
27 August 2004	Natural	3.6 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BREADSPRNG
12 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	BEAR SPRINGS

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory Historic District: 7 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Geothermal. 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
Diamond No. 2 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1952, 1953, 1970
Fort Wingate Army Depot Well	Geothermal	Unknown
Diamond #2 Mine	Uranium	Past Producer
Hyde Deposit	Uranium	Unknown
Largo #4	Uranium	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in McKinley 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

2 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
	Fort Wingate Historic District	1.8 miles	1978
	Route 66, State maintained from Iyanbito to Rehobeth	4.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000488 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McKinley County	All 25 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.