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Photograph of Carrie Tingley Hospital Historic District
Photograph by AllenS, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Carrie Tingley Hospital Historic District

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Carrie Tingley Hospital Historic District, at 992 Broadway in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, was developed in 1936. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article Carrie Tingley Hospital Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Sierra County · listed in 2005 · category: District · built in 1936, by Willard C. Kruger.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Tingley, Carrie, Hospital Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 992 Broadway, Truth or Consequences, 87901
  • When was it listed? March 2005
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. New Deal in New Mexico MPS
  • Census division. Truth or Consequences East
  • When was it built? 1936
  • Architect. Willard C. Kruger
  • National Register reference number. 03001546 - 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

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Carrie Tingley Hospital Historic District between 1993 and 2019, burning about 212 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM73 I-25
10 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIMS
9 July 2017Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestSAND TANK
30 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionELPHIE
25 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOOL
24 June 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM97
1 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWHETZEL
1 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFISH

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Carrie Tingley Hospital Historic District: 29 past producers, 12 prospects, 7 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AshlandSeleniumProspect
Barney Iorio Number OneGeothermalUnknown
Black Jack GroupManganese, TungstenPast Producer1939, 1942, 1958
Blue Jacket ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, SilicaPast Producer
Dredge Tailings 3GoldUnknown
Equator and Iron Reef GroupCopper, SilverPast Producer
Forty-One ClaimFluorine-Fluorite, ManganesePast Producer1952
Illinois GroupFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Barium-BariteProducer1918, 1953
Oakland VeinBarium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1924, 1926
Tingley ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, CopperOccurrenceFluorite

Every working recorded in Sierra County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truth or Consequences, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2006Flash FloodTruth Or Consequences$80,000Major street flooding was reported in Truth or Consequences, with the downtown area and points east hardest hit. Water entered businesses and the high school causing damage.
September 2004HailTruth Or Consequences$10,000Hail accumulated to 4 inches on Interstate 25 south of Truth or Consequences, leading to multiple vehicle accidents. The largest hail reported by NMDOT was golf ball size.
June 2000Flash FloodTruth Or Consequences$10,000no account filed
July 2006Flash FloodTruth Or Consequences$5,000A thunderstorm brought about 3 inches of rain, most of it falling within an hour, which resulted in major street flooding and some road wash outs. Highway 51 east of town had to be closed.
August 2004Heavy RainTruth Or Consequences-Two inches of rain fell within 70 minutes (one inch in 20 minutes) and caused street flooding throughout Truth or Consequences. Not far to the south, runoff from heavy rain led to a brief closure of NM 152 between Caballo and Hillsboro.
June 2006HailTruth Or Consequences-no account filed
June 2000HailTruth Or Consequences-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sierra 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

4 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03001546 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sierra CountyAll 16 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.