Bell Ranch Headquarters

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Bell Ranch is a historic ranch in San Miguel County, New Mexico, near Tucumcari. Owned by John Malone since 2010, it is one of the largest privately owned ranches in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Bell Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. N and E of the Conchas Reservoir, Bell Ranch, 87746
When was it listed? October 1970
Category. building
Census division. Conchas Dam
National Register reference number. 70000407 - 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

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bell Ranch Headquarters between 1996 and 2020, burning about 5,520 acres in total. 1 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	4
Natural	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
16 July 2020	Natural	10 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40170099X
15 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SECO
4 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	800 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BLACK
25 February 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,400 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BLACKBURN
24 February 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,300 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HYLONESOME

Every fire 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000407 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.