Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“Sutherland House, on Main St. in La Luz, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was built around 1870 by Mariano Ramirez as a three-room, flat-roof, adobe house with small, high windows for "protection from enemies".”
Wikipedia article D.H. Sutherland House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1870.
National Register reference number.80002562- 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
29 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 29 fires within 5 miles of D. H. Sutherland House
between 1993 and 2019, burning about 28 acres in total. 2 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
12
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Debris and open burning
2
Natural
2
Smoking
1
Fireworks
1
Other causes
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
14 workings within 5 miles of D. H. Sutherland House: 8 unknowns, 4 producers, 2 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
La Luz, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 heavy rain, 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.
An observer in La Luz recorded 3.33 inches of rain on the afternoon of the 23rd. Additional heavy rain reports included 2.43 inches in Cloudcroft, 2.35 inches about a mile northwest of High Rolls and 2.14 inches in High Rolls. Several other locations in and around the Sacramento Mountains reported an inch and a half to 2 inches of rain.
Highway 82 was closed just west of the tunnel to Cloudcroft was closed due to a rock slide. A section of road at La Luz Creek crossing was closed as well due to flooding.
A heavy thunderstorm moved slowly across La Luz, NM and produced 1.10 inches of rainfall in less that one hour. A trained spotter also reported minor street flooding in association with the heavy rainfall.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused extensive flooding of several canyons near La Luz, with flooding extending to most roads in the area. U.S. Highway 54 was covered by 2 feet of water and a foot of mud, and was closed between Alamogrodo and Tularosa for 90 minutes. A weather spotter measured 3.5 inches of rain in La Luz, with higher amounts estimated in the nearby canyons. There were no injuries or deaths.
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.
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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