Glorieta Pass Battlefield

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

From the record

“The Glorieta Pass Battlefield was the site of an American Civil War battle that ended Confederate ambitions to cut off the West from the Union. The Battle of Glorieta Pass took place on March 26-28, 1862, at Glorieta Pass, on the Santa Fe Trail between the Pecos River and Santa Fe, New Mexico.”
Wikipedia article Glorieta Pass Battlefield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 10 mi. SE of Santa Fe on U.S. 84-85, Santa Fe, 87508
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
National Register reference number. 66000486 - 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

60 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Glorieta Pass Battlefield between 1993 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	HAGEN
7 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	ORTIGA
5 August 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	ALAMITOS
4 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SACRED
22 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Bernalillo District	HAGEN FIRE
16 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	GLORIETA
12 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	LA CUEVA 2
12 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	LA CUEVA 1

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Glorieta Pass Battlefield: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Silver. 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	Recorded
Fairview Lode Mine	Copper, Silver	Occurrence	1910
Kennedy	Iron	Past Producer
Kennedy Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1900
Kunklin	Copper	Prospect
Paytiamo Deposit	Copper	Occurrence	1942
Paytiano	Copper	Prospect

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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

4 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
Pecos National Monument	5.9 miles	1966
Glorieta Baldy Lookout Tower	6.1 miles	1988
Pecos National Historical Park	6.2 miles	1991
San Antonio de Padua Church	6.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000486 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Miguel County	All 104 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.