Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
“Bowlin's Old Crater Trading Post is a former trading post which was located along historic U.S. The trading post was built in 1954 by Claude Bowlin.”
Wikipedia article Bowlin's Old Crater Trading Post, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Cibola County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bowlin's Old Crater Trading Post between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Albuquerque District Office | CANYON |
| 13 July 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 5 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Bernalillo District | MILE MARKER 74 |
| 13 June 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FLUME WELL |
| 28 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 27 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-61150449X |
| 27 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-61130447X |
| 21 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | CREEK |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Bowlin's Old Crater Trading Post: 7 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Haystack Mine | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | 1951, 1981 | |
| Materials Pit 67-29-S | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Hoskins & Robinson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Quarrys | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Wylie Bros. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bluewater Uranium Mill | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Hope Mine | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Section 13 Mine | Uranium | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluewater, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Bluewater | $40,000 | A road was washed out near Bluewater Lake State Park. Two homes were also flooded. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Bluewater | $3,000 | Willis road was washed out, and a home had flooding in its garage and porch. |
| October 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluewater | $2,000 | A tin roof was peeled off a home near Bluewater Lake by gusty winds from a small shower. |
| August 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Bluewater | - | A funnel cloud was reported just north of Bluewater Lake near Mt. Taylor in the vicinity of two merging thunderstorm cells. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Bluewater | - | About a dozen mobile homes were briefly flooded by 1-2 feet of water in the Plano Colorado development west of Bluewater. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Bluewater | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Route 66, State maintained from Milan to Continental Divid | 5.0 miles | 1997 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06000150 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Cibola County | All 11 listed properties in this county. |
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