Built in 1941 (Pueblo Revival Style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“The Cactus Motor Lodge, later known as the Cactus RV Park, was a motel located along historic U.S. I.E. and Edna Perry built the lodge in 1941.”
Wikipedia article Cactus Motor Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Quay County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1941, Pueblo Revival Style architecture, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/c490404e82d4592347d0c8e2c9939daf.
National Register reference number.06000154- 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
16 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cactus Motor Lodge
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 3,182 acres in total. None 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
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Cactus Motor Lodge: 5 unknowns.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tucumcari, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 61 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 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.
Multiple reports of flash flooding were received via social media during the evening of May 25, 2023. Streets throughout town were flooded, closed, or impassable with vehicles being stranded in some spots. Water was also reported to have reached up to business entrances.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which resulted in extensive street flooding in Tucumcari and Logan. Several vehicles became stuck in as much as three feet of water and at least one home was flooded.
Heavy rain flooded underpasses and frontage roads along Interstate 40 in Tucumcari. Several cars were trapped between arroyos and then submerged by rising water after being abandoned by the drivers.
Thunderstorms in far eastern New Mexico produced dime-size hail and excessive rainfall. A heavy band of rain extended from near Field to Texico in Curry County with up to six inches of rain. Major street flooding occurred in both Clovis and Texico. Highways 523 and 18 were closed for the night.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 718 issues,
7,159 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
5 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.
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.
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