Conchas Dam Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Conchas Dam Historic District, in Conchas Dam, New Mexico, is a 141.3 acres (57.2 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The district is roughly bounded by the State Park South Area, State Park North Area, Conchas Reservoir, and Bell Ranch.”
Wikipedia article Conchas Dam Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel 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 the State Park South Area, State Park North Area, Conchas Reservoir and Bell Ranch, Conchas Dam, 88416
When was it listed? May 2005
Category. district
National Register reference number. 05000454 - 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Conchas Dam Historic District between 2000 and 2017, burning about 562 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 June 2017	Natural	56 acres	Las Vegas District	RIVER BOTTOM
30 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	AIRPORT
7 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
25 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GABLE
20 April 2016	Natural	218 acres	Las Vegas District	CLABBER HILL
6 March 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLABBER HILL
5 March 2000	Debris and open burning	175 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BELL

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Conchas Dam Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000454 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Miguel County	All 104 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.