A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“The Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong is a National Historic Landmark District commemorating the 1916 raid by Pancho Villa on the town of Columbus, New Mexico, and the American military response to that raid, the "Punitive Expedition" led by General John J. The raid and its response, set during World War I, the Mexican Revolution, and an accompanying low-level Border War, played a significant role in diplomacy and military preparedness for eventual American entry in the World War.”
Wikipedia article Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Luna County · listed in 1975 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.75001164- 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
15 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong
between 1993 and 2011, burning about 60 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Debris and open burning
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Columbus, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 flash flood, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 heavy rain.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Two homes along Highway 11 were evacuated due to inundation with at least one inaccessible overnight. Water crossed Highway 11 near mile marker 10 where one car got stuck. The first few arroyos along Highway 9 west of Columbus flooded due to runoff from heavy rain over the Tres Hermanas Mountains. Total rainfall just north of Columbus was 2.97 inches.
An NWS Employee driving through Columbus reported damage to several manufactured homes. Based on photos and wind damage it was determined to be a microburst with winds of up to 90 mph.
High winds overturned a mobile home in Columbus causing two minor injuries. Some tree and roof damage was also reported from this unusually intense storm that lasted about 30 minutes.
Law enforcement reported water up to 2 feet deep crossing in numerous areas on Highways 9 and 11 between Columbus and about 6 miles east of Columbus. A weather station at Pancho Villa State Park reported 1.49 inches of rain with the radar indicating heavier rains fell just south and east of this location.
Highway 9 was closed due to flooding between Mile Marker 11 and Mile 68 east of Columbus. Most flooding occurred in Luna County with the large road closure due to not wanting traffic from either direction to enter the flooded area.
Two and a half inches of rain in two hours resulted in flooding in and around Columbus. Highway 11 was closed, and water was blocking sections of Highway 9.
A supercell thunderstorm produced hail up to quarter size that accumulated several inches deep on NM Highway 11 between Columbus and Deming, which resulted in the closure of this road for a short time. Watermelon crops in the area were destroyed. Also, microbursts from the storm damaged a U.S. Customs Aerostat surveillance balloon that was tied down at the time.
3 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 457 issues,
2,531 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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