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Photograph of Casa del Gavilan
Photograph by Wallace Schultz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Casa del Gavilan

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Casa del Gavilan is a historic bed and breakfast located six miles south of Cimarron, New Mexico. The property is at the base of Urraca Mesa and is surrounded by the property of Philmont Scout Ranch.”

Wikipedia article Casa del Gavilan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Colfax County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1911.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 570 NM 21 S, 5.7 mi. S of Cimmaron, Cimmaron, 87714
  • When was it listed? December 2017
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Cimarron
  • When was it built? 1911
  • National Register reference number. 100001882 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Casa del Gavilan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 26,788 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2000Natural175 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBEAVER
6 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMINERS PARK
22 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCITO
21 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHAFFER
17 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNICK
11 August 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCLARKS FORK
11 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMINERS
9 July 2000Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHAEFERS

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Villa Philmonte Historic District2.2 miles1995
Maxwell-Abreu and North (Martinez) Houses5.4 miles1993
Cimmaron Historic District5.7 miles1973
Cimarron Mercantile5.7 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001882 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Colfax CountyAll 30 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.