Bridge A 249-Cloudcroft, New Mexico

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Bridge A 249 is a historic wooden trestle bridge in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico, just outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 as Bridge A 249-Cloudcroft, New Mexico.”
Wikipedia article Bridge A 249, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 2015 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 65 E. Little Mexican Ave., Cloudcroft, 88317
When was it listed? December 2015
Category. structure
Census division. Southeast Otero
National Register reference number. 15000948 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Bridge A 249-Cloudcroft, New Mexico between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	90
Natural	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	SLASH PIT
4 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	SLEEPY GRASS
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	GATE
18 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	not named
1 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	LA LUZ 2
9 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	HAYNES
6 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	NITEHAWK
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	CHIPPEWAY

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bridge A 249-Cloudcroft, New Mexico: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Stone. 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
Red Hill Deposit	Copper, Lead	Past Producer
State Hwy Pit No. 58-99-S	Stone	Unknown
Cloudcroft C335	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Cloudcroft Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Otero County

Storms near this property

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloudcroft, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 18 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 heavy rain, 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 2013	Hail	Cloudcroft	$250	Golf ball size hail was reported on Highway 244 east of Cloudcroft which broke a windshield.
July 2012	Hail	Cloudcroft	$10	A local trained spotter reported several minutes of .70 inch hail across western portions of the city of Cloudcroft in association with a strong thunderstorm that moved over the area. .50 inches of heavy rain was also reported from this storm.
July 2025	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	An NWS Student Volunteer reported hail up to one inch in diameter east of Cloudcroft.
July 2025	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Hail up to the size of quarters and as deep as 4 inches in areas was reported around Cloudcroft. Snow plows were called in order to remove the hail from roads.
July 2023	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	A trained spotter near Silver Lake reported hail up to the size of pennies.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Cloudcroft	-	The Otero County Emergency Manager reported up to 4 inches of rain had fallen in less than 2 hours at the Waterfall Lodge and along Cox Canyon Highway.
July 2021	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Golf ball size hail.
September 2016	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Hail was up to 2 inches deep.
July 2016	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Dime to nickel sized hail reported just south-southeast of Cloudcroft.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Cloudcroft	-	A CoCoRaHS Observer 5 miles northeast of Cloudcroft reported 2.99 inches of rain between the 16th and early on the 19th.
July 2013	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Mescalero Fire Department reported pea to nickel sized hail covering the ground up to 6 inches in depth along highway 244.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Cloudcroft	-	Mescalero Fire Department reported 8 to 12 inches of water along with debris covering Highway 244 between mile markers 10 and 18. Road was closed for a short while.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Cloudcroft	-	Water was over the roads and driveways in Sixteen Springs. Ditches were running 1 to 2 feet deep.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Cloudcroft	-	Flooding with necessary evacuations occurred around Sixteen Springs and Walker Canyon. Spotter reports of 2 inches of rain in an hour with County Road 10 washed out east of Sixteen Springs.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Cloudcroft	-	The local COOP observer for Cloudcroft reported 1.17 inches of heavy rain. The local emergency manager also reported heavy rain and some minor street flood occurring across western and southern parts of Cloudcroft.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Cloudcroft	-	A total of 5.5 inches of rain was reported in Cloudcroft. Flooding was reported around the Cloudcroft High School area, around the water treatment plant and over Highway 130. The intersection of Chautauqua and Woodlands Roads was closed due to water over the road. Other rainfall totals over the Sacramento Mountains included 2.99 inches 4 miles southwest of Silver Lake and 2.65 inches of rain at the Dry Canyon Mesonet Station 3 miles south-southwest of Silver Lake.
May 2010	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Hail up to one inch in diameter was reported in Cloudcroft.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Cloudcroft	-	Storm drainage culverts on Highway 130 near mile marker 16 were plugged and 2 feet of water was flowing over the highway. The highway was impassable.
July 2007	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Penny to nickel size hail covered the ground.
June 2007	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Hail up to ping pong size accumulated to a 2 inch depth about 2 miles southeast of Cloudcroft. The majority of the hailstones were nickel size.
June 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Cloudcroft	-	A small rope-like tornado was reported by weather observers at Holloman AFB. It was observed for 8 minutes over the Sacramento Mountains beneath a thunderstorm about 3 miles southeast of Cloudcroft. The tornado was nearly stationary while the thunderstorm moved south.
June 2003	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Holloman AFB personnel involved in training south of Cloudcroft experienced 40 minutes of half-inch hail with the largest hailstones slightly larger than 1 inch in diameter.
July 2002	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground to a depth of 2 inches.
May 2006	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Cloudcroft	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otero 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mexican Canyon Trestle	0.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000948 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.