Jicarilla Apache Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Jicarilla Apache Historic District in Dulce, New Mexico is an 11.9 acres (4.8 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Jicarilla Apache Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Main St., NM 17, Apache, Keliiaa, and Sand Hill Drs., Dulce, 87528
When was it listed? March 1984
Category. district
Census division. Jicarilla Apache
National Register reference number. 84002956 - 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Jicarilla Apache Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,664 acres in total. 168 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	168
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	10
Fireworks	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2016	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	WELDING
7 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southern Ute Agency	LOST
27 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southern Ute Agency	NATURAL OU
26 September 2000	Natural	1.5 acres	Jicarilla Agency	DULCESPRIN
22 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	A. L.
21 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	GOMEZ 2
18 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	LAST ONE
17 September 2016	Natural	60 acres	Jicarilla Agency	SEGURO

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Jicarilla Apache Historic District: 5 prospects. None of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit No. 58-136-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 58-137-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 58-63-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 59-111-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 64-54-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dulce, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dulce	$50,000	Severe winds produced significant roof damage to the Jicarilla Head Start building in Dulce.
June 2000	Lightning	Dulce	$50,000	A large oil storage tank burnt after a lightning strike.
September 2014	Hail	Dulce	$30,000	Significant damage to vehicles and skylights.
September 2014	Hail	Dulce	$20,000	Observer reported quarter size hail that damaged car windshields and dented vehicles.
May 2015	Hail	Dulce	-	Nickel size hail stripped leaves off trees at a recreational vehicle park.
September 2014	Hail	Dulce	-	Tribal police reported hail up to 1.5 inches in Dulce.
October 1998	Hail	Dulce	-	Quarter size hail covered the ground.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dulce	-	Several sheds were damaged in Dulce where the Bureau of Indian Affairs office reported a microburst of 67 mph.

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba 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 84002956 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rio Arriba County	All 46 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.