Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“The Deming Armory is a historic armory in the United States, located at 301 South Silver Avenue in Deming, Luna County, New Mexico. The building was built for the United States Department of the Army in 1915-16, and is currently being used as the premises for the local museum in Deming.”
Wikipedia article Deming Armory, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Luna County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1916, by Trost & Trost.
National Register reference number.83001624- 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
6 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Deming Armory
between 1994 and 2016, burning about 107 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
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Natural
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
27 workings within 5 miles of Deming Armory: 22 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
4 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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