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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 2018 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Whitaker Dinosaur Quarry
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1708 US 84, Abiquiu, 87510
- When was it listed? October 2018
- Category. site
- Census division. Tierra Amarilla
- National Register reference number. 100003030 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Whitaker Dinosaur Quarry between 1993 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 16 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chama District | CORRALL |
| 15 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | MON |
| 8 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | MARTINEZ TRAIL |
| 7 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | LUMBRE |
| 24 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | BANCO DE BURRO |
| 2 August 1993 | Natural | 16 acres | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 7 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Carson National Forest | SALAZAR TRAIL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Whitaker Dinosaur Quarry: 6 prospects, 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Ranch Pit No. 330 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone | Unknown | ||
| Las Minas De Pedro | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Las Minas Jimmie | Copper, Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Horny Toad | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Lucky Dog | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit No. 60-13-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Materials Pit No. 60-15-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Materials Pit No. 62-49-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Materials Pit No. 66-33-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Rio Chama Valley Gravels | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abiquiu, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $50,000 | Twenty minutes of intense rainfall followed by 4 hours of moderate rainfall caused wash out of County Road 155. A culvert beneath the road could not hold all the water and breached the roadway. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $10,000 | County road 155 washed away and culverts destroyed. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $5,000 | Observer reported the most severe storm at this location in 15 years. A total of 1.28 inches of rain fell in 45 minutes and the main road on their property was ripped apart and culverts destroyed. Additionally, their garden was shredded by hail. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $5,000 | Flash flooding along Arroyo Del Yeso filled roads with mud and clogged the bridge to Ghost Ranch with heavy debris. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $2,500 | County Road 162 near the intersection of U.S. Highway 84, close to Abiquiu, was partially washed away. The culvert was reportedly too small to carry the volume of water generated by the heavy rain and topped the roadway. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Abiquiu | - | A dry thunderstorm produced a brief high wind gust up to 59 mph near Abiquiu. |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia O'Keeffe Ghost Ranch House | 1.7 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003030 in Record Group 79. |
| Rio Arriba County | All 46 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.