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Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commerical Historic District in Truth or Consequences

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commercial Historic District in Truth or Consequences in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is a 56 acres (23 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commercial Historic District in Truth or Consequences, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Sierra County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Post, Ban Patten, Pershing and Main Sts., Truth or Consequences, 87901
When was it listed? May 2005
Category. district
Census division. Truth or Consequences East
National Register reference number. 05000409 - 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commerical Historic District in Truth or Consequences between 1993 and 2017, burning about 135 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/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
3 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM73 I-25
10 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MIMS
9 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	SAND TANK
30 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ELPHIE
25 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COOL
24 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM97
1 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WHETZEL
1 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FISH

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commerical Historic District in Truth or Consequences: 29 past producers, 12 prospects, 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ashland	Selenium	Prospect
Black Jack Group	Manganese, Tungsten	Past Producer	1939, 1942, 1958
Blue Jacket Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Silica	Past Producer
Dredge Tailings 3	Gold	Unknown
Equator and Iron Reef Group	Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Forty-One Claim	Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese	Past Producer	1952
Illinois Group	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Barium-Barite	Producer	1918, 1953
Oakland Vein	Barium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1924, 1926
Tingley Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper	Occurrence	Fluorite
Tingley Prospect	Calcium, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2006	Flash Flood	Truth Or Consequences	$80,000	Major 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 2004	Hail	Truth Or Consequences	$10,000	Hail 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 2000	Flash Flood	Truth Or Consequences	$10,000	no account filed
July 2006	Flash Flood	Truth Or Consequences	$5,000	A 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 2004	Heavy Rain	Truth 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 2006	Hail	Truth Or Consequences	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Truth 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
US Post Office-Truth or Consequences Main	0.2 miles	1990
Carrie Tingley Hospital Historic District	0.6 miles	2005
Elephant Butte Dam	4.1 miles	1979
Elephant Butte Historic District	4.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000409 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sierra County	All 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.