El Santuario de Chimayo

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“El Santuario de Chimayó is a Roman Catholic church in Chimayo, New Mexico, United States. This shrine, a National Historic Landmark, is famous for the story of its founding and as a contemporary pilgrimage site.”
Wikipedia article El Santuario de Chimayo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe County · listed in 1970 · 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 listing

Address. 1 mi. NW of Santa Cruz Reservoir Dam, Chimayo, 87522
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. building
Census division. Santa Fe North
National Register reference number. 70000412 - 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of El Santuario de Chimayo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,280 acres in total. 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Debris and open burning	25
Natural	20
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	RESUMEDERO
3 September 1992	Natural	4.5 acres	Bandelier National Monument	CHURCH
18 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Bernalillo District	RIO ARRIBA
6 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	M50
31 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	JOE
31 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	THINNING
28 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	RIO
25 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	BORDO

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe 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 El Santuario de Chimayo: 2 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Uranium, Iron, Stone. 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
Chimayo Pit	Stone	Unknown
Cundiyo	Iron	Occurrence
Hubbard Prospect	Uranium	Prospect
Marion	Uranium	Unknown
Green Rock Mine	Mica	Past Producer	1955, 1956
Tip Top Mine	Mica	Past Producer	1955, 1956, 1957
Unnamed Prospects	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
Casita Desiderio y Pablita Ortega	0.9 miles	1972
La Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Site of the Plaza of Santa Cruz de la Canada	6.8 miles	1973
Pueblo of Nambe	7.6 miles	1974
Las Acequias	7.6 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000412 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Santa Fe County	All 79 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.