Tierra Amarilla Community Ditch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

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

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

The listing

Address. Extending from 2 mi. ESE of Tierra Amarilla to 0.2 mi. N of La Corridera Rd., Tierra Amarilla, 87575
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. structure
Also known as. La Tierra Amarilla MRA
Census division. Tierra Amarilla
National Register reference number. 86002307 - 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Tierra Amarilla Community Ditch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 35 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	52
Natural	35
Debris and open burning	24
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
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
23 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TINA
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
9 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SALAZAR
9 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JUNCTION
7 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Chama District	PLAZA
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DANDY
6 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SAMURI

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tierra Amarilla Community Ditch: 3 prospects, 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
Eturriaga Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
B - 01294 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lower Brazos	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit No. 64-34-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 65-64-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Materials Pit No. 70-15-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Rutheron Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tierra Amarilla, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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
July 2003	Hail	Tierra Amarilla	-	no account filed

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.

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
Tierra Amarilla Historic District	0.6 miles	1986
Los Ojos (Parkview) Fish Hatchery	2.2 miles	1985
Burns Lake Bungalow	2.2 miles	1985
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto	2.4 miles	1987
Encenada Community Ditch	2.4 miles	1986
Blanton Log House	2.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002307 in Record Group 79.
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.