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Photograph of Sagrada Familia de Lemitar Church, Los Dulces Nombres
Photograph by Helen Orozco, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sagrada Familia de Lemitar Church, Los Dulces Nombres

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Socorro County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off I-25, Lemitar, 87823
  • When was it listed? February 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Socorro
  • National Register reference number. 83001631 - 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

70 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Sagrada Familia de Lemitar Church, Los Dulces Nombres between 1995 and 2019, burning about 967 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
21 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSocorro Field OfficePOWER LINE 2
24 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMONSOON
23 August 2010Natural2.0 acresSevilleta National Wildlife RefugeBOWLING GREEN
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSocorro Field OfficeMM152
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFLORIDA
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
4 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionONE WEED

Every fire recorded in Socorro County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Sagrada Familia de Lemitar Church, Los Dulces Nombres: 7 unknowns, 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Box Canyon ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Fluorite
El Oro and La Plata GroupLead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Copper, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1900, 1945
Box Canyon DepositBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Socorro County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemitar, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021HailLemitar-A storm chaser near Lemitar reported nickel size hail from a strong thunderstorm.
August 2019HailLemitar-Hail up to the size of pennies near Lemitar.
July 2002Flash FloodLemitar-A storm with hail and heavy rain moved over central Socorro County. Wide spread ditch and road flooding was reported by a spotter from Lemitar.
July 1997Flash FloodLemitar-Heavy rains washed out county roads in the area from Lemitar to Polvadera.
July 2000HailLemitar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Socorro 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Brown Hall6.5 miles1989
Fitch Hall6.6 miles1989
Illinois Brewery6.8 miles1975
San Miguel Church7.0 miles2016
A. B. Baca House7.1 miles1991
Juan Nepomuceno Garcia House7.1 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001631 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Socorro CountyAll 38 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.