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Photograph of Narciso Valdez House
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Narciso Valdez House

Built in 1895 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Narciso Valdez House, on New Mexico State Road 120 in Ocate, New Mexico, was built between 1895 and 1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”

Wikipedia article Narciso Valdez House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Mora County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1895, Queen Anne style.

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.
  • Listed as. Valdez, Narciso, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NM 120, Ocate, 87734
  • When was it listed? July 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Wagon Mound
  • When was it built? 1895
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 80004484 - 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

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Narciso Valdez House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,339 acres in total. 42 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
Natural42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2000Natural15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBLATTMAN
5 September 2001Natural3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionUNION
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRIMROCK
15 September 2017Natural2.5 acresLas Vegas DistrictDOMINIC
7 August 2012Natural10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWHITE
3 August 2000Natural800 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMESA
21 August 2010Natural1.0 acresCimarron DistrictAGULIA
14 August 2017Natural2.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictELK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Narciso Valdez House: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Laizy DaisyUraniumUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocate, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 16 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailOcate-Very heavy rain and quarter sized hail falling at the time of report.
May 2021HailOcate-A trained spotter near Ocate reported 1 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm moving northeastward through the area.
June 2020HailOcate-A COOP observer near Ocate reported nickel size hail with a strong thunderstorm that moved southeast over the area.
August 2018HailOcate-Hail up to the size of ping pong ball and very heavy rainfall impacted folks northwest of Ocate.
August 2016Funnel CloudOcate-A trained spotter and the COOP observer for Ocate reported two brief funnel clouds.
June 2013HailOcate-Half dollar hail in Ocate.
August 2009HailOcate-Quarter size hail lasted 10 minutes and covered the ground.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Ocate-No damage was reported. The tornado stirred up grass and dust near Ocate Crater.
August 1999Funnel CloudOcate-Skywarn spotter reported brief funnel cloud.
June 2008HailOcate-no account filed
June 2008HailOcate-no account filed
June 2007HailOcate-no account filed
May 2006HailOcate-no account filed
April 2004HailOcate-no account filed
May 1999HailOcate-no account filed
May 1999HailOcate-no account filed
May 1997HailOcate-no account filed
July 1996HailOcate-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOcate-no account filed
July 1996HailOcate-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mora 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 PropertyDistance Listed
J. P. Strong Storeunder 500 feet1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80004484 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mora CountyAll 14 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.