Plaza Blanca Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Plaza Blanca Historic District, in Plaza Blanca, New Mexico, United States, is a 19 acres (7.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Plaza Blanca Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. Roughly Plaza Blanca and Old Puente Ford Rds. adjacent to Plaza Blanca Ditch, Plaza Blanca, 87551
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. district
Also known as. La Tierra Amarilla MRA
Census division. Tierra Amarilla
National Register reference number. 86002322 - 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Plaza Blanca Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 211 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	55
Natural	41
Debris and open burning	21
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
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
4 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Chama District	HERON
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
1 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VISITOR
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 2001	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	NEAR MISS
5 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	SKI RUN

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 Plaza Blanca Historic District: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 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
B - 01294 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lower Brazos	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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

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
Plaza Blanca Community Ditch	0.2 miles	1986
La Puente Historic District	0.5 miles	1985
La Puente Community Ditch	0.6 miles	1986
Tony Manzanares House	0.7 miles	1985
Burns Lake Bungalow	1.6 miles	1985
Blanton Log House	1.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002322 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.