Built in 1937 (Pueblo Revival Style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“The Lordsburg-Hidalgo County Library is a public library located at 208 E. The Lordsburg Women's Club established Lordsburg's library in 1919; it originally operated out of spaces in other public buildings and houses.”
Wikipedia article Lordsburg-Hidalgo County Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Hidalgo County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1937, Pueblo Revival Style architecture.
Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture
National Register reference number.03001547- 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
6 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lordsburg-Hidalgo County Library
between 1992 and 2000, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined
4
Arson/incendiarism
1
Natural
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
63 workings within 5 miles of Lordsburg-Hidalgo County Library: 45 past producers, 10 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 3 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold. 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
Lordsburg, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A landspout tornado was photographed just northwest of Lordsburg. No damage was reported and no survey was done to rate the tornado. Location and path are approximate based on photographer location.
The Hidalgo County Sheriff reported major flooding in Lordsburg. Four to five feet of standing water were reported at the Interstate 10 under passes near Motel Drive at both the east and west ends of Lordsburg. A vehicle extraction was also performed at the Highway 70 underpass. A mesonet site reported 2.16 inches of rainfall near the Interstate 10 port of entry with instantaneous rainfall rates exceeded 5 inches per hour at times.
A severe thunderstorm ripped through the Lordsburg area causing widespread power outages and structural damage. There were numerous reports of downed utility poles. A mobile home was pushed 4 feet off of the foundation with another mobile home damaged when a porch was hurled through the air. A barn on the east side of Lordsburg was completey torn apart. In addition to the strong winds, heavy rains caused minor flooding of streets and intersections.
Considerable damage resulted from thunderstorm winds in the vicinity of Lordsburg. Damage included several storage buildings destroyed and a power outage which lasted several hours due to a downed power pole.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 936 issues,
4,392 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.
Listed places nearby
3 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.
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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