Miguel E. Baca House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Baca House, in Adelino, New Mexico on what is now New Mexico State Road 47, was built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Miguel E. Baca House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Valencia County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Baca, Miguel E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NM 47, Adelino, 87031
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Census division. Los Lunas
National Register reference number. 78001835 - 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

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Miguel E. Baca House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,070 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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	240
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	146
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	8
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Other causes	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ANIMAL
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SKUNK FIRE
27 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	AFS FIRE
21 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bernalillo District	HACKSAW FIRE
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bernalillo District	20-60460253X
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GROOT FIRE
16 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.1 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MANZANO S
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SERAFIN

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Miguel E. Baca House: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Recorded
Tome Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Valencia County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adelino, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Adelino	-	Decaying thunderstorm outflow produced a peak wind gust to 62 mph near Adelino.

Every storm recorded in Valencia 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
Tome Jail	2.0 miles	1977
El Cerro Tome Site	3.4 miles	1996
Belen Harvey House	4.2 miles	1983
Belen Hotel	4.2 miles	1980
Belen City Hall	4.3 miles	2019
Felipe Chaves House	4.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valencia County	All 18 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.
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.