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San Jose de Gracia Church

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1760. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The San Jose de Gracia Church, also known as Church of Santo Tomas Del Rio de Las Trampas, is a historic church on the main plaza of Las Trampas, New Mexico. Built between 1760 and 1776, it is one of the least-altered examples of a Spanish Colonial Pueblo mission church, with adobe walls rising 34 feet (10 m) in height.”
Wikipedia article San José de Gracia Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Taos County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1760 · 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. N side of the Plaza, Las Trampas, 87521
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. building
Census division. Peñasco
When was it built? 1760
National Register reference number. 70000415 - 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of San Jose de Gracia Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 447 acres in total. 37 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	37
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 September 2009	Natural	2.3 acres	Carson National Forest	CONCRETE
17 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson National Forest	not named
9 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	OJITO
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LIANO
7 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	UPPER LLANO
7 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	OSO 2012
4 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	not named
3 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	MAEZ

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of San Jose de Gracia Church: 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Beryllium, Lithium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Calcium, Beryllium, Tantalum. 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
Harding Pegmatite	Beryllium, Lithium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Calcium	Past Producer	1919, 1958
Harding Pegmatite	Tin, Tantalum, Lithium, Beryllium	Past Producer	1900, 1920
Harding Pegmatite Ext.	Beryllium, Tantalum	Occurrence
Owen-Roybal Group	Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum	Past Producer	1957
Owens-Roybal Group	Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium)	Past Producer
Theodore Glass Property	Beryllium, Mica	Prospect
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit No. 64-65-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Taos 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

3 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
Las Trampas Historic District	0.3 miles	1967
Picuris Pueblo	5.5 miles	1974
Laureano Cordova Mill	6.4 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000415 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Taos County	All 40 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.