BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Torrance County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Duran Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by NM 3, Vidal and East Sts., and Park Ave., Duran, 88318
- When was it listed? January 2021
- Category. district
- Census division. Mountainair-Encino
- National Register reference number. 100005733 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Duran Historic District between 1996 and 1998, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 March 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MYSTERY |
| 14 March 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HINDI |
| 11 December 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HEDGES |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Duran Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garner | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this property
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duran, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 4 hail. 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 2021 | Hail | Duran | $50,000 | A COOP observer reported ping pong size hail from a slow-moving thunderstorm near Duran. The observer also reported several vehicles were damaged due to broken windshields and rearview mirrors. Damages are estimated for the unknown amount of vehicles damaged. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Duran | - | Hail up to the size of pennies covering NM-3 near Duran. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Duran | - | Small hail collected to a depth of 4-6 inches on Highway 54 northeast of Corona. |
| August 1996 | Hail | Duran | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005733 in Record Group 79. |
| Torrance County | All 9 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.