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One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1983 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
San Geronimo Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- Address. Off NM 283, San Geronimo, 87701
- When was it listed? November 1983
- Category. district
- Census division. Pecos
- National Register reference number. 83004163 - 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
89 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of San Geronimo Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,793 acres in total. 60 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 | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Las Vegas District | 20-40250234X |
| 29 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GERONIMO |
| 25 September 2005 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | ROCK |
| 2 September 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | COMISSARY |
| 10 September 2000 | Natural | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MINERAL FIRE |
| 10 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | NICHOLSON |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | PABLO |
| 6 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | BARILLAS |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of San Geronimo Historic District: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Nickel. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guy's Nickel Claims | Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Lost Creek | Uranium | Prospect |
Storms near this property
8 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Geronimo, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Hail | San Geronimo | $2,000 | A trained spotter near San Pablo reported ping-pong size hail with a severe thunderstorm. The hail was large enough to cause damage to the spotter's outdoor deck and plastic picnic table. Damage amounts are rough estimates. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | San Geronimo | - | Heavy rains on the Hermit's Peak Calf Canyon burn scar resulted in flash flooding and water over the highway at multiple points of State Road 283 just west of Las Vegas, NM. There were no reports of damage. |
| June 2023 | Hail | San Geronimo | - | Mineral Hill Fire Department reported quarter size hail from a supercell drifting slowly south and east. |
| July 2020 | Hail | San Geronimo | - | A CoCoRaHS observer near San Pablo reported quarter size hail as a severe thunderstorm moved south through the area. |
| June 2017 | Hail | San Geronimo | - | Hail up to the size of half dollars reported near San Geronimo. |
| September 2016 | Hail | San Geronimo | - | Penny to nickel size hail. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | San Geronimo | - | New Mexico DOT reported that Highway 283 was closed near San Geronimo due to flash flooding. A CoCoRaHS observer in the area reported 2.81 inches of rainfall from this storm with strong runoff. 2.30 inches of that fell in just 30 minutes with hail. Highway 283 was reopened the following morning around 11am. |
| July 2014 | Hail | San Geronimo | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norman L. King Memorial Stadium | 8.0 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83004163 in Record Group 79. |
| San Miguel County | All 104 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.