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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Franklin MacFie House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Listed as. MacFie, Franklin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 220 County Road 140, Hernandez, 87537
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Rio Chama
- National Register reference number. 100010755 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
42 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Franklin MacFie House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 2 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 | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | NELSON |
| 6 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ANTONIO |
| 3 July 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | PARTY |
| 3 July 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | CAMP 2 |
| 19 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-60320144X |
| 17 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 12 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chama District | 21-10070070X |
| 1 July 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | OSO CAMPFIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Franklin MacFie House: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara Pumice Pit 1 | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit No. 67-23-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Pit 67 - 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
6 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hernandez, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 4 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 dust devil. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Hernandez | $2,000,000 | Two elderly residents rescued from a mobile home that was washed off it's foundation and displaced over 50 feet downstream. Up to 30 homes inundated with water and at least 10 families displaced from flood waters. U.S. Highway 285, highway 74, and county road 57 all closed to remove mud and debris. County Road 57 washed over with mudslides from nearby mesa. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Hernandez | $75,000 | At least three vehicles stalled in flood waters along county road 56A. |
| June 2019 | Dust Devil | Hernandez | $10,000 | Twenty people were injured when a dust devil blew apart a large tent at a summer solstice event at the Guru Ram Das Puri retreat center west of Espanola. Damage amounts are a rough estimate for destruction of the event tent. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Hernandez | - | Hail up to the size of quarters in Hernandez. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Hernandez | - | Numerous roadways flooded and impassable around Hernandez. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Hernandez | - | Water over U.S. Highway 84 in Hernandez near highway 74. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Luceros Hacienda | 7.6 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010755 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.