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Photograph of Mountainair Municipal Auditorium
Photograph by MRobison, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mountainair Municipal Auditorium

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Mountainair Municipal Auditorium, in Mountainair, New Mexico, was built in 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”

Wikipedia article Mountainair Municipal Auditorium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Torrance County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1934.

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. SW corner of Roosevelt Ave. and Beal St., Mountainair, 87036
  • When was it listed? April 1987
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Mountainair-Encino
  • When was it built? 1934
  • National Register reference number. 87000651 - 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mountainair Municipal Auditorium between 1993 and 2014, burning about 200 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined10
Natural7
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSISNEROS
10 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
5 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreCibola National ForestROOSEVELT 404
24 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPARDA
6 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROMERO
28 July 1993Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
18 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLUCY
17 July 2005Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Every fire recorded in Torrance 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 Mountainair Municipal Auditorium: 4 unknowns. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mountainair PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Torrance County

Storms near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountainair, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMountainair-A RAWS station near Mountainair measured a 61 mph wind gust associated with a decaying shower.
August 1999Funnel CloudMountainair-Brief, small funnel clouds reported through emergency coordinator.
July 2005HailMountainair-no account filed
June 2004HailMountainair-no account filed
August 2004HailMountainair-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Torrance County

Newspapers printed here

1,050 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 217 issues, 1,050 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Mountainair Independent1916 to 1941

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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Shaffer Hotel0.2 miles1978
Willard Mercantile Company0.2 miles2018
Rancho Bonito1.0 miles1978
Quarai6.0 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000651 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Torrance CountyAll 9 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.