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Photograph of Jemez Historic Site
Photograph by Sarah Stierch, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jemez State Monument

Built in 1623. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Sandoval County · listed in 1973 · category: Site · built in 1623.

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

The listing

  • Address. NM 4, Jemez Springs, 87025
  • When was it listed? March 1973
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Jemez-Zia
  • When was it built? 1623
  • National Register reference number. 73001147 - 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Jemez State Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,759 acres in total. 125 started naturally. 3 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
Natural125
Recreation and ceremony32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2000Natural7.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestCANYON
9 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
3 September 1992Natural15 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
29 September 1992Natural3.0 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
26 September 2012Natural2.5 acresSanta Fe National ForestBATTLESHIP
26 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestFALLS
25 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestVIRGIN
19 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestMESA

Every fire recorded in Sandoval 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 Jemez State Monument: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Spanish Queen MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1940
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jemez Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
N. E. Soda Dam ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Pit Number 60-42-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pyramid Pumice MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Soda Dam SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Spanish QueenGold, SilverPast Producer
Tex - N ProspectUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sandoval CountyAll 12 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.