Mahoney Building

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Mahoney Building, or Mahoney Building, at Gold and Spruce Sts. in Deming, New Mexico, was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Mahoney Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Luna County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1912, by Trost & Trost.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Gold and Spruce Sts., Deming, 88030
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Census division. Deming South
When was it built? 1912
Architect. Trost & Trost
National Register reference number. 80002551 - 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mahoney Building between 1992 and 2014, burning about 301 acres in total. 1 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	6
Natural	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
17 September 1992	Natural	175 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	CARNE
21 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CORRAL
18 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	122 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	549
18 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
24 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RIGHT OF WAY
12 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Las Cruces Field Office	MCSHERRY
7 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Las Cruces Field Office	FLORIDA SHAFT

Every fire recorded in Luna County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Mahoney Building: 12 past producers, 9 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Copper. 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
Carne Well	Geothermal	Unknown
Georgia Bell Mine	Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Galena, Malachite, Pyrite
Materials Pit	Stone	Unknown
Apache Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1942, 1951, 1953
Florida Fluorspar Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1918, 1919, 1951
Florida Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1919
American No 15ferro Mn.No.1	Manganese	Past Producer	1953
American No. 11 Claim	Manganese	Past Producer	1925
American No. 29 Claim	Manganese	Occurrence	Vein
American No.11-Ferro Mn.No. 2	Manganese	Past Producer	1953

Every working recorded in Luna County

Storms near this property

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deming, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 8 flash flood, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Flash Flood	Deming	$350,000	About 3 inches of rain fell within an hour over already-saturated ground in the western portion of Deming. Major street flooding occurred, with most roads closed west of Highway 11. This same area was under 2 to 3 feet of water which entered homes and businesses. Power was out in the majority of the city as water logged power poles were easily knocked over by 45 mph wind gusts.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Deming	$200,000	At least 3 inches of rain in a short period of time caused widespread flash flooding in Deming. Numerous roads were closed, and some houses and businesses were flooded. Sandbags were put up by law enforcement.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	$50,000	Scattered power and phone lines were down throughout Deming.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Deming	$25,000	Flash flooding occurred through the mid to late evening hours. Multiple cars were stalled across Deming, underpasses were flooded and at least one house started taking in water.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Deming	$20,000	A series of thunderstorms dropped nearly 4 inches of rain within 90 minutes on the south part of Deming, with 2 to 3 inches elsewhere in town. Highway 180 was closed due to a flooded underpass. Several vehicles were stalled in the significant street flooding that resulted.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	$10,000	Power poles and trees were blown down in Deming.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	$10,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	$5,000	Winds estimated at 65 mph knocked out power, toppled two large trees and closed the interstate (due to low visibility from blowing dust) in and around Deming.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Deming	$5,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	$2,000	Three trees were blown down (one of them uprooted) and 2 power poles knocked over near Peru Mill at the northwest edge of Deming. Low level moisture had retreated further east resulting in a dry microburst from a high based thunderstorm.
September 2020	Flood	Deming	-	Up to four feet of water was on roadways near Overhill Drive, just north of Deming. Some cars were trapped due to the high water.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	-	An amateur radio operator in Deming estimated wind gusts to 65 mph.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Deming	-	A weather spotter reported .70 inches of heavy rainfall in 15 minutes near Deming, NM. Minor street flooding was reported in the city of Deming during this time period.
November 2011	Flood	Deming	-	Flooding was reported on several streets in Deming with up to a foot of water covering some low lying areas in town.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Deming	-	Rainfall amounts of more than 4 inches were measured around Deming, resulting in major street flooding and the closure of Highway 26.
October 2006	Tornado (F1)	Deming	-	A large wedge tornado touched down in open country for about 5 minutes from a rapidly moving supercell west-southwest of Deming. Photos of the funnel were widely distributed to area newspapers, and it was readily apparent that the circulation was on the ground. Tornadoes of this size and origin (mesocyclone rather than landspout) are rare in this part of the country.
October 2006	Hail	Deming	-	There were several reports of quarter size hail around Deming with the second of two supercells to affect the city this evening. Most of the hail fell on the north part of town, though golf ball size hail fell on I-10 to the west a few minutes prior.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Deming	-	Law enforcement reported sporadic flooding due to heavy thunderstorm rains along U.S. highway 180 between Deming and Silver City.
August 1999	Flash Flood	Deming	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rains which caused flooding along U.S. route 180 and state route 26 north of Deming. Flood waters also closed state highway 143 between Deming and Rock Hound state park.
July 2015	Hail	Deming	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Deming	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Deming	-	no account filed
October 2006	Hail	Deming	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Deming	-	no account filed
August 2002	Flood	Deming	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Luna County

Newspapers printed here

8,630 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,414 issues, 8,630 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
Deming Headlight	1881 to 1948
Deming Graphic	1903 to 1948

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002551 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Luna County	All 7 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.