Photograph of Fort Wingate — Photograph by Elias Olcott Beaman / James Fennemore / John Karl Hillers, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Wingate Historic District

Built in 1862. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Fort Wingate was a military installation near Gallup, New Mexico, United States. There were two other locations in New Mexico called Fort Wingate: Seboyeta (1849-1862) and San Rafael (1862-1868).”
Wikipedia article Fort Wingate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for McKinley County · listed in 1978 · category: District · built in 1862.

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

The listing

Address. NM 400, Fort Wingate, 87316
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. district
Census division. Red Rock
When was it built? 1862
National Register reference number. 78003076 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fort Wingate Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2009	Natural	5.7 acres	Cibola National Forest	FT. WINGATE
19 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	400
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	WINGATE
3 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	RON
12 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	BEAR SPRINGS
4 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	TURKEY SPRINGS
18 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	FOX
17 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	QUAKING ASPEN

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fort Wingate Historic District: 8 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Fort Wingate Army Depot Well	Geothermal	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Iyanbito Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in McKinley 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory Historic District	1.8 miles	2003
	Route 66, State maintained from Iyanbito to Rehobeth	3.8 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78003076 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McKinley County	All 25 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.