Circle Cross Ranch Headquarters

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Circle Cross Ranch Headquarters, in Otero County, New Mexico, near Sacramento, New Mexico, was partly built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Circle Cross Ranch Headquarters, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1905.

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

The listing

Address. SW of Sacramento, Sacramento, 88317
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Census division. Southeast Otero
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 80002563 - 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

76 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Circle Cross Ranch Headquarters between 1993 and 2020, burning about 21,664 acres in total. 40 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
Natural	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HESSEE
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MARS
2 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	SPILLER
15 September 2010	Natural	8.0 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	RIM TANK
4 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TRES MARIAS
20 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Capitan District	21-50460232X
18 August 2020	Natural	8.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	ABLE
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	LOGAN

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Circle Cross Ranch Headquarters: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Escondio Magnetite	Iron	Producer
	Materias Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Otero County

Storms near this property

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sacramento, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 8 hail, 2 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
June 2000	Flash Flood	Sacramento	$50,000	A thunderstorm dropped heavy rain on an area scarred from a recent forest fire. Mudslides, ash and debris covered roads and damaged some buildings around Sacramento.
June 2022	Flash Flood	Sacramento	-	Highway 130 was closed due to widespread flash flooding west of Weed.
May 2012	Hail	Sacramento	-	Relayed by sheriffs office. A public report from Telephone Canyon reported up to one inch diameter hail during thunderstorm.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Sacramento	-	A local weather spotter recorded 1.50 inches of rainfall from a thunderstorm that passed over his location. Minor street flooding was reported in southeast portions of Timberon, NM.
July 2009	Hail	Sacramento	-	Nickel and quarter size hail fell near the cafe in Weed, NM.
August 2007	Hail	Sacramento	-	Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size fell at the Sacramento Post Office.
October 2015	Hail	Sacramento	-	no account filed
October 2015	Hail	Sacramento	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Sacramento	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Sacramento	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Sacramento	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otero 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
	Carrisa Lookout Complex	5.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002563 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otero County	All 24 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.