Photograph of Lincoln Historic District — Photograph by Richard Greenwood, Photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Luna House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Lincoln Historic District is a historic district encompassing the community of Lincoln, New Mexico. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.”
Wikipedia article Lincoln Historic District (Lincoln, New Mexico), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 28 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. U.S. 380, Lincoln, 88338
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Census division. Hondo
National Register reference number. 66000477 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Luna House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	4
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2020	Other causes	under an acre	Capitan District	21-50490259X
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Capitan District	20-50620224X
14 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.4 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SEDILLO
6 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	WEST
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PENA
30 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MARGUERITA
20 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Capitan District	20-50190100N
21 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Capitan District	BIG TREE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Luna House: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Salazar Canyon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 2015	Hail	Lincoln	$25,000	Observer reported damage to cars, roofs and windows. Extent of damage unknown.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Lincoln	$500	Flooding along the Rio Bonito dislodged a couple of foot bridges at the Lincoln State Monument and moved them downstream approximately one eighth of a mile.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Lincoln	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms resulted in fast moving water flowing over U.S Highway 380 in Lincoln.
June 2017	Hail	Lincoln	-	Several inches of at least quarter size hail accumulated along U.S. Highway 380 near Salazar Canyon. The entire mountain side turned white.
June 2017	Hail	Lincoln	-	Dime to quarter size hail near Lincoln.
June 2017	Hail	Lincoln	-	Hail up to the size of nickels in Lincoln.
June 2014	Hail	Lincoln	-	Lincoln.
June 2014	Hail	Lincoln	-	Lincoln.
June 2008	Hail	Lincoln	-	Penny size hail at the Lincoln State Monument.
June 2007	Hail	Lincoln	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

Newspapers printed here

336 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 83 issues, 336 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
Golden Era	1884 to 188?

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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Peter and Henriette Wyeth Hurd House	6.8 miles	2014
Peter and Henriette Wyeth Hurd House	7.3 miles
Fort Stanton Historic District (Boundary Increase)	8.0 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000477 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.