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Abo

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

From the record

“Abó, is a pueblo ruin in New Mexico that is preserved as part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. The ruins are located about 9 miles (14 km) west of Mountainair, at about 6,100 feet (1,900 m) above sea level.”

Wikipedia article Abo (historic place), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Torrance 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

  • 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 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3 mi. W of Abo on U.S. 60, Abo, 87036
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Mountainair-Encino
  • National Register reference number. 66000497 - 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

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Abo between 1995 and 2017, burning about 182 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2007Debris and open burning1.7 acresSalinas Pueblo Missions National MonumentSISNERO FIRE
25 August 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTIMAN
25 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHILTON
11 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBECKER
9 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRAFAEL
9 July 2002Natural5.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSCHOLLE
9 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresCibola National ForestSAN RAFAEL
6 July 2003Natural1.0 acresCibola National ForestTRACK

Every fire recorded in Torrance County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Abo: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Abo MineSilver, CopperUnknown
Scholle Claim GroupUranium, CopperPast Producer
Scholle DistrictCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, UraniumPast Producer1905, 1915, 1961
Jack Rabbit ClaimCopperPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Torrance County

Storms near this property

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abo, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAbo-A trained spotter measured a 59 mph wind gust from a thunderstorm outflow northeast of Abo.
June 2018Funnel CloudAbo-Funnel cloud observed near Abo Pass.
June 2018HailAbo-Nickel size hail southwest of Mountainair.

Every storm recorded in Torrance 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000497 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Torrance CountyAll 9 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.