Photograph of Pueblo de San Ildefonso — Photograph by NPS, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

San Ildefonso Pueblo

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“San Ildefonso Pueblo, also known as the Turquoise Clan, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States, and a federally recognized tribe, established c. 1300 AD. The Pueblo is self-governing and is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area.”
Wikipedia article San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe 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. SW of Espanola off NM 4, Espanola, 87506
When was it listed? June 1974
Category. district
Census division. Santa Fe North
National Register reference number. 74001206 - 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of San Ildefonso Pueblo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	BROKEN AX
14 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	DUMP 2
6 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	ELM
4 July 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	6 MILE
2 July 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Albuquerque District Office	SECO
16 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Northern Pueblos Agency	JACONA 2
16 July 2019	Natural	1.2 acres	Taos Field Office	ARROYO
16 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	JUNIPER

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of San Ildefonso Pueblo: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
White Eagle Pumice Mine 2	Pumice	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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
Otowi Historic District	1.7 miles	1975
Otowi Suspension Bridge	1.7 miles	1997
Lujan-Ortiz House	3.3 miles	2000
Ignacio Roybal House	4.3 miles	1986
Las Acequias	7.1 miles	2008
La Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Site of the Plaza of Santa Cruz de la Canada	7.9 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001206 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.