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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Orogrande School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 1158 Carroll Street, Orogrande, 88342
- When was it listed? January 2025
- Category. building
- Also known as. New Deal in New Mexico MPS
- Census division. Alamogordo
- National Register reference number. 100011237 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Orogrande School between 2009 and 2011, burning about 7,168 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,150 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | LIL OROGRANDE |
| 24 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ELDRIDGE |
| 22 April 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,000 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | OROGRANDE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 86 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Orogrande School: 28 occurrences, 24 unknowns, 16 past producers, 15 producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Copper, Gold, Silver, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Group | Semiprecious Gemstone, Iron | Producer | ||
| Alice Mine | Iron, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Garnet Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1887, 1953 | |
| I Mine | Gold, Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Jarilla Mountains | Gemstone | Past Producer | 1892 | |
| Laura Mine | Iron, Copper, Semiprecious Gemstone | Unknown | ||
| Lucky Mines | Iron, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Mid-Day Zinc Deposit | Zinc, Copper, Lead | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Nannie Baird Group | Iron, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Nannie Baird Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | 1895, 1897, 1932 |
Storms near this property
14 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orogrande, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2010 | Hail | Orogrande | $5,000 | Border Patrol reported ping pong ball sized hail at the checkpoint on Highway US54. Hail covered the ground and impeded traffic for some time. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Orogrande | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Orogrande | - | The Orogrande Gate on the White Sands Missile Range received 4.62 of rain and caused some portions of the road from Highway 54 to get flooded. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orogrande | - | A peak gust of 58 mph was reported at a Mesonet site on the White Sands Missile Range. |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orogrande | - | A peak gust of 60 mph was recorded about 10 miles east-northeast of the Main Post. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orogrande | - | Reported by LC-32 Mesonet site on the White Sands Missile Range. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orogrande | - | Mesonet station LC-35 North on White Sands Missile Range. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Orogrande | - | Otero County Sheriff reported 2 feet of water flowing over some roads in Orogrande. The Orogrande Cooperative Observer reported 2.96 inches of rain and the SAMS site 5 miles west-northwest of Orogrande recorded 2.03 inches. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orogrande | - | A SAMS site from the White Sands Missile Range reported a 68 mph wind gust. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orogrande | - | A 58 mph wind gust was reported 10 miles east-northeast of the White Sands Main Post at a SAMS Mesonet site. |
| October 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Orogrande | - | A storm chaser photographed a tornado on White Sands Missile Range. This was the 3rd tornado of the fall season in the El Paso NWS Forecast Area. |
| October 2002 | Hail | Orogrande | - | A severe thunderstorm (with rotating updraft) dropped a swath of 1.25 inch diameter hail up to 3 inches deep just north of Orogrande. The desert in and around this area was flooded. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Orogrande | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Orogrande | - | 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 100011237 in Record Group 79. |
| Otero County | All 24 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.