Molino de los Duranes

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Taos County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 83 Camino Abajo de la Loma, Ranchos de Taos, 87571
When was it listed? February 2020
Category. building
Census division. Taos
National Register reference number. 100004918 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Molino de los Duranes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,585 acres in total. 13 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	19
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	13
Fireworks	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Carson National Forest	TAOS CANYON
7 August 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Carson National Forest	TETILLAS
29 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	RAMPS
11 August 1995	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Northern Pueblos Agency	TRAILER
9 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Albuquerque District Office	BLAKE
9 July 1994	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Albuquerque District Office	TALPA
8 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	ASPEN WIND
8 July 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Albuquerque District Office	QUINTA

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Molino de los Duranes: 5 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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

6 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
San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church	1.0 miles	1970
Ranchos de Taos Plaza	1.1 miles	1978
San Ysidro Oratorio	1.3 miles	1984
Severino Martinez House	1.9 miles	1973
La Loma Plaza Historic District	2.9 miles	1982
Harwood Foundation	3.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004918 in Record Group 79.
Taos County	All 40 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.