CA Bar Ranch

Built in 1886. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The CA Bar Ranch, in Chaves County, New Mexico near Mayhill, New Mexico, was built in 1886. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article CA Bar Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Chaves County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1886.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 82 3 mi. W of jct. with NM 24, Mayhill, 88250
When was it listed? August 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Roswell New Mexico MRA
Census division. Southwest Chaves
When was it built? 1886
National Register reference number. 85003634 - 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of CA Bar Ranch between 1993 and 2019, burning about 16,988 acres in total. 5 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	8
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	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
13 September 2015	Natural	133 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WOODRUF
15 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	DUNKEN
2 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ELK
11 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DIRT
30 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SHORT
28 June 1994	Natural	250 acres	Lincoln National Forest	not named
25 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	Roswell Field Office	PICACHO
15 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Capitan District	RUNYAN

Every fire recorded in Chaves 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 85003634 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chaves County	All 22 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.