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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mesa Ranger Station Barn, Lincoln County, New Mexico
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. National Forest Road 131/Ranger Road, Lincoln National Forest, Nogal, 88341
- When was it listed? June 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Capitan
- National Register reference number. 100011946 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
115 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Mesa Ranger Station Barn, Lincoln County, New Mexico between 1992 and 2020, burning about 335 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Lincoln National Forest | WET |
| 30 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | WOLF |
| 22 September 2003 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Lincoln National Forest | GEORGE |
| 21 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | 569 |
| 15 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GUNRANGE |
| 10 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Lincoln National Forest | SPLINTER |
| 9 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FERN |
| 2 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Capitan District | 20-50310149N |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Mesa Ranger Station Barn, Lincoln County, New Mexico: 11 unknowns, 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C and M No 1 & No 2 Claims | Silver, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Copper King No 1 Mine | Silver, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Helen Rae Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | 1885, 1937 | |
| Hope Prospect | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Michigan | Lead | Unknown | ||
| Mudpuppy-Waterdog Prospect | Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Tellurium | Occurrence | Molybdenite, Pyrite | |
| Tortolita Canyon Vein | Uranium | Occurrence | Pyrite | |
| American Mine | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | 1868, 1885, 1935 | |
| Silver King Tunnel | Silver, Lead, Copper | Unknown | ||
| American | Gold, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nogal, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Nogal | $25,000 | A partial road collapse occurred along Old Bonito Lake Rd due to flash flood undercuts and encroachments. This collapse was located about 2 miles west of the intersection with State Road 37. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Nogal | - | Heavy rain near Nogal forced the closure of U.S. Highway 380 from mile marker 74 to mile marker 76. Per a trained spotter, the bridge in the area was unsafe to cross as road surfaces had been damaged from repeated rounds of heavy rain over the summer. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Nogal | - | A brief landspout tornado was reported over rural countryside northwest of Nogal. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Nogal | - | Nickel size hail reported near Bonito Lake. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Nogal | - | Quarter size hail was reported northeast of Bonito Lake. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Nogal | - | A second round of storms produced quarter size hail in Capitan. |
| May 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Nogal | - | Several observers around Carrizozo reported a well developed funnel cloud near Carrizo Mountain a couple miles northeast of town. |
| October 1998 | Hail | Nogal | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Nogal | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso And Southwestern Railway Water Supply System | 1.7 miles | 1979 | |
| Aguayo Family Homestead | 3.8 miles | 1995 | |
| Hopeful Lode | 5.6 miles | 1995 | |
 | Monjeau Lookout | 6.4 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011946 in Record Group 79. |
| Lincoln County | All 22 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.