Photograph of D. H. Lawrence Ranch — Photograph by Vivaverdi, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

D.H. Lawrence Ranch Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Lawrence Ranch, as it is now known, was the New Mexico residence of the English novelist D. Lawrence for about two years during the 1920s and the only property Lawrence and his wife Frieda owned.”
Wikipedia article D. H. Lawrence Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Taos County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Lawrence, D.H., Ranch Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Lawrence Rd., approx 2.75 mi. E of NM 522 on US Forest Service Rd. 7, San Cristobal
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. district
Census division. Arroyo Hondo
National Register reference number. 03001410 - 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of D.H. Lawrence Ranch Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 18 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	18
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
28 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson National Forest	CUCHILLA DE MEDIO
22 September 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	not named
11 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson National Forest	GARRAPATA
18 August 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Carson National Forest	LATE NIGHT FIRE
10 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	CERRITO COLORADO
10 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	LOBO FIRE
9 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson National Forest	LOWER HONDO ICF
6 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	LAWRENCE

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 D.H. Lawrence Ranch Historic District: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica. 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
Garrapata	Mica	Occurrence
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Portorico Prospect	Copper, Calcium	Prospect
South Fork Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite
Iowa Group	Gold	Prospect
Picuris	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
South Fork Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
	Turley Mill and Distillery Site	3.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001410 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Taos County	All 40 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.