BlockFrom the record
One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe County · listed in 2005 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic Distric at La Bajada
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- Address. Appox. 0.5 mi. NE of N terminus of NM 16, La Bajada Village
- When was it listed? June 2005
- Category. district
- Also known as. Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
- Census division. Santa Fe South
- National Register reference number. 05000633 - 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
41 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic Distric at La Bajada between 1993 and 2020, burning about 755 acres in total. 3 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 | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 21-60190054X |
| 6 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | OBOY |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.6 acres | Southern Pueblos Agency | INDEPENDENCE |
| 31 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-60340146X |
| 31 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | S.DOMINGO |
| 30 July 2000 | Natural | 15 acres | Taos Field Office | LA CIENEGA |
| 26 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Southern Pueblos Agency | 266 |
| 19 July 2009 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BURNT MESA |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic Distric at La Bajada: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Uranium, Silver, Molybdenum, Cobalt, Germanium, Nickel, Thorium, Sulfur, Arsenic, Uranium, Tin, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Bajada | Uranium, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| La Bajada Mine | Copper, Uranium, Silver, Molybdenum, Cobalt, Germanium, Nickel, Thorium, Sulfur, Arsenic | Past Producer | 1915, 1979 | |
| Lone Star Mine | Uranium, Tin, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper | Past Producer | 1915 | |
| Pit Number 77-1-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Cinder Pits | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Hiser-Moore Claims | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| La Majada | Uranium | Unknown |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Acequia System of El Rancho de las Golondrinas | 6.2 miles | 1980 |
 | El Rancho de las Golondrinas | 6.4 miles | 2022 |
| J.B. Jackson House | 6.6 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05000633 in Record Group 79. |
| Santa Fe County | All 79 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.