Miguel Valdez Barn

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Miguel Valdez Barn, on San Joaquin Church Loop Rd. in Ensenada, New Mexico, was likely built in the 1920s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Miguel Valdez Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1920.

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.
Listed as. Valdez, Miguel, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. San Joaquin Church Loop Rd., Encenada, 87575
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. building
Also known as. La Tierra Amarilla MRA
Census division. Tierra Amarilla
When was it built? 1920
National Register reference number. 86002314 - 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Miguel Valdez Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. 42 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	62
Natural	42
Debris and open burning	24
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
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
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	Y2K
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
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

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Miguel Valdez Barn: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 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
Materials Pit No. 65-64-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Rutheron Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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
Encenada Community Ditch	0.2 miles	1986
San Joaquin Church	0.2 miles	1986
Parkview Community Ditch	0.4 miles	1986
Ramon Jaramillo House and Barn	0.6 miles	1986
El Porvenir Community Ditch	1.2 miles	1986
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto	2.0 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002314 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.