Pinos Altos Historic District

Built in 1860. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Pinos Altos Historic District is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It includes 37 contributing buildings on 72 hectares.”
Wikipedia article Pinos Altos Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1984 · category: District · built in 1860.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Gold Ave., Cherry, Main, Church, and Silver Sts., Pinos Altos, 88053
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. district
Census division. Pinos Altos
When was it built? 1860
National Register reference number. 84002945 - 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Pinos Altos Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,976 acres in total. 91 started naturally. 13 were 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	91
Recreation and ceremony	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
30 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	MILL
24 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
24 September 1993	Natural	2.0 acres	Gila National Forest	not named
23 September 1994	Natural	2,000 acres	Gila National Forest	GLASS
21 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gila National Forest	CHERRY
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gila National Forest	BEAR CREEK 3
19 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gila National Forest	LILLY
19 September 2011	Natural	1.5 acres	Gila National Forest	LITTLE CHERRY 2

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Pinos Altos Historic District: 46 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold. 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
Alaska Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Arizona Mine	Zinc, Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Atlantic Mine	Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Atlas No. 2	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Calumet Mine	Zinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1891, 1952
Cleveland Mine	Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1895, 1949
Cleveland Mine	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Deep Down Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer
Deep Down-Atlantic Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1860, 1865
Gila Mines	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1860, 1955

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinos Altos, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2022	Heavy Rain	Pinos Altos	-	A CoCoRaHS observer received 4.30 inches of rain.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Pinos Altos	-	Several reports came in from spotters of a foot and a half to two and a half feet of water were covering roads between Silver City and Little Walnut Village. Over an inch of rain fell in less than 45 minutes.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinos Altos	-	A mobile home had half of the roof torn off and was pushed off the foundation by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 1997	Hail	Pinos Altos	-	Weather Spotter reports hail up to one inch covering the ground.
October 2015	Hail	Pinos Altos	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Pinos Altos	-	no account filed
August 1997	Flash Flood	Pinos Altos	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fort Bayard Museum and Education Building	6.2 miles	2002
Silver City Woman's Club	6.5 miles	2003
Silver City Water Works Building	6.7 miles	1984
St. Mary's Academy Historic District	6.8 miles	1983
Silver City Historic District North Addition	7.1 miles	1983
Ritch Hall	7.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002945 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 45 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.