La Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Site of the Plaza of Santa Cruz de la Canada

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The district is a rectangular, open plaza with buildings on four sides. The most notable is the eighteenth-century La Iglesia de Santa Cruz.”
Wikipedia article La Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Site of the Plaza of Santa Cruz de la Canada, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 structuress, 3 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 Block of Santa Cruz Plaza, Espanola, 87532
When was it listed? August 1973
Category. district
Census division. Santa Fe North
National Register reference number. 73001148 - 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

322 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of La Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Site of the Plaza of Santa Cruz de la Canada between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,559 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 52 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
Debris and open burning	115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Arson/incendiarism	52
Natural	27
Fireworks	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Other causes	3
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
9 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PHILIP
7 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	BROKEN AX
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
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
26 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	TANK

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe 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 La Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Site of the Plaza of Santa Cruz de la Canada: 3 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Rogers	Uranium	Occurrence
San Jose No 13 Claim	Uranium	Unknown
Bartholomew - Sanchez Grant Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lowdermilk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Materials Pit No. 55-70-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 59-60-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 59-62-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
Casita Desiderio y Pablita Ortega	6.5 miles	1972
El Santuario de Chimayo	6.8 miles	1970
Ignacio Roybal House	6.9 miles	1986
Lujan-Ortiz House	7.2 miles	2000
Las Acequias	7.4 miles	2008
San Ildefonso Pueblo	7.9 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001148 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.