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San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1772 (Pueblo architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“San Francisco de Asís Parish Church is an historic and architecturally significant Catholic church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. During the 18th century, it was the center of a small Spanish and Native American agricultural community.”
Wikipedia article San Francisco de Asís Mission Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Taos County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1772, Pueblo architecture · 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. The Plaza, Ranchos de Taos, 87557
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. building
Census division. Taos
When was it built? 1772
Architectural style. Pueblo architecture, Spanish Colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 70000416 - 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

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,546 acres in total. 18 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
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Carson National Forest	TAOS CANYON
7 August 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Carson National Forest	TETILLAS
29 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	RAMPS
28 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HONDOCANYON
11 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	BEAR WALLOW FIRE
11 August 1995	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Northern Pueblos Agency	TRAILER
9 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Albuquerque District Office	BLAKE
9 July 1994	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Albuquerque District Office	TALPA

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Clay. 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
Cueva Blanca Mine	Kaolin, Clay	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Pit No.M-15276	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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

6 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
Ranchos de Taos Plaza	under 500 feet	1978
Molino de los Duranes	1.0 miles	2020
San Ysidro Oratorio	2.2 miles	1984
Severino Martinez House	2.8 miles	1973
Leon Gaspard House	3.5 miles	1979
E. Martin Hennings House and Studio Historic District	3.6 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000416 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.