BlockFrom the record
One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Casita Desiderio y Pablita Ortega
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 13 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. SW of jct. of Rtes. 76 and 4, Chimayo, 87522
- When was it listed? July 1972
- Category. building
- Census division. Santa Fe North
- National Register reference number. 72000810 - 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
93 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Casita Desiderio y Pablita Ortega between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,282 acres in total. 17 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 | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Casita Desiderio y Pablita Ortega: 2 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Mica, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chimayo Pit | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Green Rock Mine | Mica | Past Producer | 1955, 1956 | |
| Unnamed Prospects | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Hubbard Prospect | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Marion | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Rogers | Uranium | Occurrence |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | El Santuario de Chimayo | 0.9 miles | 1970 |
 | La Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Site of the Plaza of Santa Cruz de la Canada | 6.5 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 72000810 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.