Embudo Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. U.S. 64, Embudo, 87549
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. district
Census division. South Rio Arriba
National Register reference number. 79001547 - 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Embudo Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 August 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VIGIL
3 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	EMBUDO II
3 July 2005	Fireworks	2.6 acres	Taos Field Office	GASOLINEAL
3 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Albuquerque District Office	CACTUS
24 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	COUNTYLINE
20 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	BOLS
2 July 1997	Fireworks	under an acre	Albuquerque District Office	RINCONADA
2 July 1997	Fireworks	3.5 acres	Albuquerque District Office	LA BOLSA

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Embudo Historic District: 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Bismuth. 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
Goat's Point Prospect	Bismuth	Prospect
Lyden Bentonite Deposit	Bentonite	Unknown
Materials Pit No. 73-18-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Sebastian - Martin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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

1 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
	Los Luceros Hacienda	7.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001547 in Record Group 79.
Rio Arriba County	All 46 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.