Cousins Bros. Trading Post

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Trading Post, near Chi Chil Tah, New Mexico, was built in 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Cousins Bros. Trading Post, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for McKinley County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1930.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 768 A-D Cousins Rd., Chi Chil Tah, 87326
When was it listed? March 2006
Category. building
Census division. Red Rock
When was it built? 1930
National Register reference number. 06000153 - 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

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cousins Bros. Trading Post between 1993 and 2014, burning about 1 acre in total. 4 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	4
Other causes	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
16 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	VANDEWAGON
6 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SKEETS WASH
18 July 2003	Other causes	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	CHICHILTAH
29 June 1993	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	CHICHILTAH
24 June 2005	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	CHICHILTAH

Every fire recorded in McKinley 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 06000153 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McKinley County	All 25 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.