Bandelier National Monument

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest.”
Wikipedia article Bandelier National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Sandoval County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1916.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 12 mi. S of Los Alamos on NM 4, Los Alamos, 87544
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Santo Domingo-San Felipe
When was it built? 1916
National Register reference number. 66000042 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Bandelier National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,026 acres in total. 107 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
Natural	107
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	OSIFRIDAY
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	PONDEROSA
7 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	MONSOON
6 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	ALAMO SPRINGS
30 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	FRIJOLITO
12 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	49
1 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	not named
1 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	SADDLE

Every fire recorded in Sandoval 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000042 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sandoval County	All 12 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.