El Barranco Community Ditch

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The El Barranco Community Ditch in Los Brazos, New Mexico is a 3.8 miles (6.1 km) long irrigation ditch diverting water from the Rio Chama. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article El Barranco Community Ditch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 1986 · category: Structure · built in 1907.

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

The listing

Address. Exdending from the Chama River at Chama Division to Upper Brazos Ditch, Los Brazos, 87528
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. structure
Also known as. La Tierra Amarilla MRA
Census division. Jicarilla Apache
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 86002296 - 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of El Barranco Community Ditch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 41 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	63
Natural	41
Debris and open burning	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TINA
21 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BIRTHDAY
18 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VALDEZ FIRE
14 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Chama District	512 POWERLINE
7 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	NEAR MISS
6 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MUNDY
4 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	OSO
4 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MUNDY

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of El Barranco Community Ditch: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Eturriaga Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
B - 01294 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eturriga Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lower Brazos	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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.

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
Samuel Sanchez House	0.7 miles	1986
Samuel Sanchez Barns	0.7 miles	1986
Los Brazos Historic District	1.6 miles	1985
Manuelita Trujillo House	2.0 miles	1985
Trujillo, Sr., Fernando, House	2.2 miles	1985
Sanchez-March House	2.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002296 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.