Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Apache Canyon Railroad Bridge, located 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Lamy in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, is a deck plate girder bridge built in 1908 by the American Bridge Co.of New York, per a manufacturers plaque on the eastern side of the cross girder, though the NRHP form erroneous states a build date of 1892. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Apache Canyon Railroad Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.79001553- 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
78 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Apache Canyon Railroad Bridge
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
41
Natural
9
Debris and open burning
7
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
1 working within 5 miles of Apache Canyon Railroad Bridge: 1 unknown.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lamy, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 9 hail, 3 flash flood.
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.
Heavy rain near Lamy caused Old Lamy Trail Road to nearly wash out by the Legal Tender Saloon. Three to four feet of water was also reported along the railroad. Damages are estimated.
Heavy rain of 2 to 3 inches near Lamy and Glorieta caused flash flooding in the area. A CoCoRaHS observer reported that this heavy rain flooded the arroyo in their backyard, forming a lake. Video shared by local broadcast media also showed flash flooding through a property at La Posta Way. Damages are estimated.
A garage on Avalon Place flooded due to heavy rain. Fortunately, flooding to the the interior of the house was avoided because mechanical pumps were brought in to mitigate the disaster. Just north of this area, 2.32 inches of rain was reported in the Santa Fe Seton Village. This rain fell in just over one hours 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.
Listed places nearby
4 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.
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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