BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Torrance County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Shaffer Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Broadway St., Mountainair, 87036
- When was it listed? November 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Mountainair-Encino
- National Register reference number. 78003077 - 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
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Shaffer Hotel between 1993 and 2014, burning about 200 acres in total. 7 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 | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SISNEROS |
| 10 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 5 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | ROOSEVELT 404 |
| 24 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PARDA |
| 6 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROMERO |
| 28 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 18 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LUCY |
| 17 July 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shaffer Hotel: 4 unknowns. None of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Mountainair Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountainair, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainair | - | A RAWS station near Mountainair measured a 61 mph wind gust associated with a decaying shower. |
| August 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Mountainair | - | Brief, small funnel clouds reported through emergency coordinator. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Mountainair | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Mountainair | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Mountainair | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
1,050 digitised pages1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 217 issues, 1,050 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Mountainair Independent | 1916 to 1941 |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mountainair Municipal Auditorium | 0.2 miles | 1987 |
 | Willard Mercantile Company | 0.2 miles | 2018 |
 | Rancho Bonito | 0.9 miles | 1978 |
 | Quarai | 6.1 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78003077 in Record Group 79. |
| Torrance County | All 9 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.