Jicarilla Schoolhouse

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Jicarilla Schoolhouse, in Jicarilla, New Mexico on New Mexico State Road 349 in Lincoln National Forest, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Jicarilla Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1907.

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. NM 349, Lincoln National Forest, Jicarilla, 88301
When was it listed? April 1983
Category. building
Census division. Corona
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 83001623 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Jicarilla Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
21 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	LONE PINE
30 July 2011	Natural	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CARVAHAL
13 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	JICARILLA
23 June 2020	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	REVENTON
22 June 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	MESA BARN
20 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	WARNER
20 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	HUBBARD
18 June 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WADE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Jicarilla Schoolhouse: 16 past producers, 10 occurrences, 8 prospects, 7 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, Barium-Barite. 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
Black Gold Mine	Gold, Iron	Occurrence	Gold, Magnetite, Pyrite
Jicarilla Gold Placers	Gold, Silver, Platinum	Past Producer	1850, 1942
Spring Gold Stain Mine	Gold, Arsenic	Occurrence	Gold, Pyrite
Alpha Mill	Copper, Gold, Silver	Unknown
Alpha Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Unknown
Box Lode Claims Nos 1-22	Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Fox Lode Prospect	Barium-Barite, Copper	Occurrence	Barite
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sierra Blanca Mill & Processing Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Apex Claim	Copper	Prospect

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001623 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 22 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.