Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“Joseph Apache Mission Church is a historic Catholic parish church at 626 Mission Trail in Mescalero, New Mexico, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph Apache Mission Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.04001588- 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
468 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 468 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph Apache Mission Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,892 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 37 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
142
Debris and open burning
84
Natural
52
Recreation and ceremony
49
Arson/incendiarism
37
Misuse of fire by a minor
26
Other causes
23
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Fireworks
17
Smoking
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
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
3 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph Apache Mission Church: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mescalero, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 8 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 hail.
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.
Rainfall amounts of up to 2 inches fell on the South Tularosa Fire burn scar above Mescalero, resulting in excessive runoff. Logs washed on to Route 10, and much debris blocked residences. A fish hatchery was destroyed which killed all the fish.
Moisture associated with the remnants of Dolly resulted in very heavy rain over the South Tularosa Canyon Fire burn scar. Flood waters over-topped containment ponds leading to a widespread flash flood event. Parts of U.S. 70 were closed, the road to the Mescalero Fire Station was washed out, and numerous secondary roads were closed die to high water. Two dams failed at Mud Canyon. Several buildings were affected by the flood waters.
The Mescalero Fire Department reported water and mud covering IR-10 at the west end of a large burn scar. Bulldozers were dispatched to clear the road.
Highway 70 was closed between mile markers 242 and 247. Heavy debris was across the road near mile marker 242. Rainfall amounts in excess of 1 inch in an hour were recorded near the burn scar.
Flash flooding lead to closures along Highway 70 near mile marker 250 as well as NM-244 northeast of Mescalero. Torrential rainfall for an hour occurred with near zero visibility.
A video of a tornado west of Ruidoso received a lot of social media attention. The tornado was located in front of Sierra Blanca Peak around 9000 ft in elevation. No damage or injuries were reported.
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.
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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