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Harding County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Harding County Courthouse, located on Pine St. in Mosquero, is the county courthouse in Harding County, New Mexico. The courthouse was completed in 1922; while the building had existed previously as a school, it was extensively remodeled to become the county courthouse.”

Wikipedia article Harding County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Harding County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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. Pine St., Mosquero, 87733
  • When was it listed? December 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. County Courthouses of New Mexico TR
  • Census division. North Harding
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 87000895 - 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Harding County Courthouse between 2000 and 2014, burning about 10,651 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5

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
7 August 2000Natural850 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBELL
25 July 2011Natural700 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHAMMER
30 June 2014Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFARM CAMP
16 June 2006Natural9,000 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHARDING PLEX
22 March 2009Natural100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDAVID HILL

Every fire recorded in Harding County

Storms near this property

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mosquero, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 25 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2016HailMosquero$25,000Large hail and strong winds produced heavy damage to a residence eight miles east-southeast of Solano. Golf ball size hail and 75 mph were reported. Windows were busted out of. A power pole was broken off at the base. A 12 inch diameter tree limb was snapped off the tree. The large hail piled up three to four inches deep.
August 1993HailMosquero$5,000The public reported golfball-size hail 6 miles east of Mosquero at 1718 MST.
July 2025Flash FloodMosquero-Flash Flooding made Trigg Road impassable near the confluence of Conejo and Vallentine Creeks with a concrete culvert becoming inundated and damaged. Location is approximate.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMosquero-Trained spotter reported 3 inch tree limbs snapped from tree. No damage was reported.
June 2023HailMosquero-Tennis ball size hail reported east-northeast of Mosquero, NM.
June 2023HailMosquero-Golf ball size hail fell with a cell that tracked over Mosquero, NM.
June 2022HailMosquero-The Harding County emergency manager reported quarter size hail near Mosquero.
May 2019HailMosquero-Nickel size hail was reported in Mosquero.
July 2019Heavy RainMosquero-The COOP observer near Mosquero reported 3.34 inches of rainfall from storms overnight.
May 2018HailMosquero-Hail up to the size of quarters near Mosquero.
August 2017Flash FloodMosquero-NM-102 flooded and impassable between mile markers 3 and 4 at Tequesquite Creek.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMosquero-Power pole snapped off at base and large tree limbs snapped near Mosquero.
September 2014HailMosquero-Hail was mostly pea size with a few quarter size stones.
September 2014HailMosquero-Ground was covered by hail.
September 2014HailMosquero-Quarter size hail was reported 2 miles south of Mitchell Ranch headquarters.
May 2012HailMosquero-Quarter size hail reported 26 miles south southeast of Mosquero.
June 2014HailMosquero-no account filed
September 2014HailMosquero-no account filed
July 2013HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2010HailMosquero-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMosquero-no account filed
September 2006HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2005Tornado (F0)Mosquero-no account filed
May 2005HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2005HailMosquero-no account filed
August 2004HailMosquero-no account filed
October 2002HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2001HailMosquero-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMosquero-no account filed
June 1996HailMosquero-no account filed
June 1995HailMosquero-no account filed
June 1995HailMosquero-no account filed
June 1995HailMosquero-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harding 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000895 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harding CountyAll 2 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.
  • 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.