Bandelier CCC Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest.”
Wikipedia article Bandelier National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Los Alamos County · listed in 1987 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Off NM 4, Bandelier National Monument, 87544
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. district
Census division. White Rock
Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture, National Park Service rustic
Architect. Lyle E. Bennett
National Register reference number. 87001452 - 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Bandelier CCC Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,224 acres in total. 71 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
Natural	71
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
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
8 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	OSIFRIDAY
7 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	MONSOON
30 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	FRIJOLITO
13 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	SACRED AREA
1 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	SADDLE
7 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	BLACK
6 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	FORK
6 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	MESA

Every fire recorded in Los Alamos 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory	7.1 miles	1966
United States Post Office-Los Alamos, New Mexico	7.2 miles	2015
Bayo Road	7.9 miles	2003
Lujan Road	8.0 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001452 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Alamos County	All 8 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.