Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“The Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is a complex of three Spanish missions located in the U.S. state of New Mexico, near Mountainair. The main park visitor center is in Mountainair.”
Wikipedia article Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Socorro County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1909.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. E of Gran Quivira on NM 10, Gran Quivira, 87036
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Claunch
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 66000494 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument between 1998 and 2009, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 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	2
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
23 July 2005	Natural	6.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GERONIMO
19 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WINDMILL RANCH
26 June 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument	KITERANCH

Every fire recorded in Socorro 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
	Gran Quivera Historic District	0.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000494 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Socorro County	All 38 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.