El Morro National Monument

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“El Morro National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. Located on an ancient east-west trail in the western part of the state, the monument preserves the remains of a large prehistoric pueblo atop a great sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base, which subsequently became a landmark where over the centuries explorers and travelers have left personal inscriptions that survive today.”
Wikipedia article El Morro National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Valencia County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1906.

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

The listing

Address. 2 mi. W of El Morro Via NM 53, El Morro, 87321
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
When was it built? 1906
National Register reference number. 66000043 - 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.

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 66000043 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valencia County	All 18 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.