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One of 159 National Register listings published here for Bernalillo County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Whitcomb Springs
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. 82 Carlito Springs Rd., Tijeras, 87059
- When was it listed? October 2019
- Category. district
- Census division. East Bernalillo
- National Register reference number. 100004498 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
152 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Whitcomb Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 9 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 56 |
| Natural | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | 462 |
| 25 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | CEDRO WEST |
| 14 September 2019 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Cibola National Forest | HAWK WATCH |
| 6 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | EMBUDITO |
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | LOMAS |
| 30 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | ROBIN |
| 28 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | KIWANIS 1 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Whitcomb Springs: 11 producers, 11 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 3 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Ideal Basic Industries Cement Plant and Quarry | Cement Rock | Producer | 1959 | |
| Little Apples Co. Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Mary M | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Mary M Mine | Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Shakespeare Mine | Barium-Barite, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Barite, Chalcocite, Copper, Fluorite | |
| Silver Ring-Verdun Claims | Gold, Silver, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Tijeras Mine | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Tijeras Pit | Clay, Stone | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown Name Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tijeras, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy snow. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1997 | Heavy Snow | Tijeras | 1 killed | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Tijeras | $35,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Tijeras | $10,000 | Heavy rain from slow moving severe thunderstorms resulted in severe flash flooding in the East Mountain communities of Cedar Crest, Tijeras and Sedillo. A 300 pound woodchipper was carried downstream on the normally dry Arroyo de San Antonio until becoming lodged in a tree. Video taken by a viewer in Tijeras and shared by a broadcast meteorologist shows Tijeras Arroyo flowing out of banks. A small tree was also moving downstream in the arroyo. Spotters also observed flood waters flowing down hillsides around Tijeras, Tablazon, and Zuzax with hail, rocks, mud, and debris covering parts of SR-333. Finally, low water crossings were completely flooded on secondary roads just east and south of the Zuzax exit at I-40. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Tijeras | - | Nickel hail reported 4 miles south of Tijeras. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Tijeras | - | The nickel sized hail was soft and mushy. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Holy Child Church | 0.7 miles | 1978 |
 | San Antonito Church and Cemetery | 6.1 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004498 in Record Group 79. |
| Bernalillo County | All 159 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.