Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Depot

Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Los Lunas, New Mexico was built in 1879. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Los Lunas station (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Valencia County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1879.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. 85, Los Lunas, 87031
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. building
Census division. Los Lunas
When was it built? 1879
National Register reference number. 79001562 - 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

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,314 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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	200
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	112
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Smoking	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Fireworks	3
Other causes	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
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
25 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Southern Pueblos Agency	JOJOLA
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
14 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RIOCOM
1 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SHED

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Depot: 7 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Materials Pit 65-29 S	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Crusher No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
John Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Materials Pit 65-28-F	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 56-10-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-133-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 72-8-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 73-1-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Nino's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Orona Pit & Crusher	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Valencia County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Los Lunas, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 1998	Hail	Los Lunas	$150,000	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	$100,000	no account filed
July 2006	Flash Flood	Los Lunas	$50,000	Run off from heavy rain washed out roads and culverts northwest of Los Lunas mainly over Isleta Reservation.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Los Lunas	$20,000	Emergency Manager reported water in homes in Los Lunas area.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	$20,000	A dry microburst wind lifted the roof from a mobile home.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	$20,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	$8,000	Outflow winds from a virga shower blew over a semi-trailer truck along Interstate 25 in Los Lunas. A small hay shed also collapsed and the sheet metal roofing blew up to 200 yards away.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	$5,000	A dry microburst with estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph downed a large cottonwood tree near Katherine Gallegos Elementary School. No injuries were reported. Damages are estimated for the downed tree.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	$5,000	Family relative reported transformer blew out and power line down. Wind blew over grill.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Los Lunas	$5,000	A drainage ditch along N. Los Lentes Road backed up into one house, meanwhile water was overflowing a brick fence into a residents yard.
September 1993	Hail	Los Lunas	$5,000	The public reported golfball-size hail in Los Lunas, stripping leaves off trees and destroying up to 50% of the crops at the State University Extension Station.
July 2021	Hail	Los Lunas	-	A resident in Los Lunas reported penny to quarter size hail from a slow-moving thunderstorm along with hail accumulations of an inch.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	-	Thunderstorm outflow wind gusts up to 60 mph were reported in Los Lunas.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	-	The Los Lunas Data Center reported a peak wind gust up to 68 mph.
July 2013	Lightning	Los Lunas	-	A large tree was destroyed by a lightning strikes along highway 47.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Lunas	-	Broken tree limbs up to 4 inches in diameter.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Los Lunas	-	Six to eight inches of flowing water and mud impacted Main Street near Interstate 25.
August 2008	Hail	Los Lunas	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Los Lunas	-	no account filed
August 2006	Flood	Los Lunas	-	no account filed
April 2005	Funnel Cloud	Los Lunas	-	no account filed
July 2002	Heavy Rain	Los Lunas	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Los Lunas	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Los Lunas	-	no account filed

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
Otero's 66 Service	0.8 miles	2003
Tranquilino Luna House	0.9 miles	1975
Dr. William Frederick Wittwer House	0.9 miles	1987
El Cerro Tome Site	3.3 miles	1996
Tome Jail	3.8 miles	1977
Miguel E. Baca House	5.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001562 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.