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Photograph of Cimarron Historic District
Photograph by F. D. Nichols, Historic American Buildings Survey, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cimmaron Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Cimarron Historic District is a historic district on the south side of Cimarron, New Mexico, United States. The district is located south of US Route 64 on the east and west sides of New Mexico Highway 21.”

Wikipedia article Cimarron Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Colfax County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. S edge of city along NM 21, Cimmaron, 87714
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Cimarron
  • National Register reference number. 73001140 - 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

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cimmaron Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,365 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2009Natural1.2 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMILL
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDEAN
8 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTOOTH
6 July 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWAVE
6 July 2000Natural40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionANTELOPE
26 June 2010Naturalunder an acreCimarron DistrictCHASE FIRE
23 June 2000Natural3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTURKEY
20 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCimarron DistrictTRACTOR

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cimmaron Historic District: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C003-002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Colfax 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cimarron Mercantileunder 500 feet2019
Villa Philmonte Historic District3.5 miles1995
Casa del Gavilan5.7 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001140 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Colfax CountyAll 30 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.