Fort Sumner Cemetery Wall and Entry

Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Fort Sumner Cemetery Wall and Entry, at 17th and Dunn Sts, 1 mile north of intersection of 17th and U.S. 60 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, was a Works Progress Administration project in 1938 and 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”
Wikipedia article Fort Sumner Cemetery Wall and Entry, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for De Baca County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure · built in 1938.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 17th and Dunn Sts, 1 mile north of intersection of 17th and U.S. 60, Fort Sumner, 88119
When was it listed? July 2008
Category. structure
Also known as. New Deal in New Mexico MPS
Census division. East De Baca
When was it built? 1938
National Register reference number. 08000575 - 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Fort Sumner Cemetery Wall and Entry between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,306 acres in total. 8 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	9
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
11 August 2011	Natural	95 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WEST RED
15 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
15 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GRANDE#1
13 July 2011	Natural	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CACTUS
11 July 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RED MILL
3 June 2006	Natural	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
27 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JACOB
22 June 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Capitan District	BLACK BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fort Sumner Cemetery Wall and Entry: 13 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cortez Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fort Sumner Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Steele Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	1992
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in De Baca County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Sumner, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1993: 2 tornado. 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
September 1993	Tornado (F1)	Fort Sumner	$50,000	A tornado moved across Sumner Lake, hitting the Alamo Boat Club Deck. The tornado damaged and flipped over two pontoon boats, stripped the roof from one cabin, damaged roofs of five other cabins and broke several power poles and television antennas.
May 1993	Tornado (F0)	Fort Sumner	-	A tornado touched down briefly in open country between Fort Sumner and Vaughn.

Every storm recorded in De Baca County

Newspapers printed here

334 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 52 issues, 334 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.

Newspaper	Published
The Fort Sumner Review	190? to 1947

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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fort Sumner Community House	0.9 miles	2003
De Baca County Courthouse	1.0 miles	1987
Fort Sumner Railroad Bridge	1.8 miles	1979
Fort Sumner Railroad Bridge	2.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000575 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
De Baca County	All 5 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.
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.