Santa Clara Pueblo

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Santa Clara Pueblo, also known as the Village of Wild Roses, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States and a federally recognized tribe of Native American Tewa Pueblo people. As of the 2020 census, Santa Clara Pueblo had a population of 930.”
Wikipedia article Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. S of Espanola off NM 30, Espanola, 87532
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. district
Census division. Santa Clara Pueblo
National Register reference number. 74001199 - 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Santa Clara Pueblo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 949 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 39 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	72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44
Arson/incendiarism	39
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Fireworks	8
Smoking	7
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
7 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	BROKEN AX
16 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	POVI
1 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LA PUEBLA
1 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	LUCERO
9 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	107 FIRE
7 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Bernalillo District	21-60150043X
7 July 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Northern Pueblos Agency	MCCURDY
6 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	LOPEZ

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba 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 Santa Clara Pueblo: 2 unknowns, 2 prospects, 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	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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 Rio Arriba 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

4 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
Frank Bond House	1.6 miles	1980
Chimayo Trading Post and Trujillo, E.D., House	2.0 miles	1999
San Juan Pueblo	6.1 miles	1974
Rio Grande Bridge at San Juan Pueblo	6.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001199 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rio Arriba County	All 46 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.