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Mogollon Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Mogollon, also called the Mogollon Historic District, is a former mining town located in the Mogollon Mountains in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. Located east of Glenwood and Alma, it was founded in the 1880s at the bottom of Silver Creek Canyon to support the gold and silver mines in the surrounding mountains.”
Wikipedia article Mogollon, New Mexico, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Catron County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. NM 78/Bursum Rd., Mogollon, 88039
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. district
Census division. Reserve
National Register reference number. 87001541 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Mogollon Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,068 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 1 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	56
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 1997	Natural	80 acres	Gila National Forest	GROUSE
13 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	WOPPER
11 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Gila National Forest	TOWNSITE
7 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
29 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	SILVER
2 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
2 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
15 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Catron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 98 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 98 workings within 5 miles of Mogollon Historic District: 43 unknowns, 20 past producers, 17 occurrences, 9 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Gold. 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
Baby Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1956
Bearup Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	1969
Cooney Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1875, 1885, 1911
Cooney Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer
Little Fanney Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Producer	1895, 1934
Mogollon District	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron	Producer	1875, 1879
N Slope Whitewater Canyon Prospect	Manganese, Tungsten	Occurrence
Pacific Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
The Lime Kiln	Calcium	Unknown
Trilby Mine	Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Argentite, Gold

Every working recorded in Catron County

Storms near this property

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mogollon, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 4 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2013	Flash Flood	Mogollon	1 killed, $1,500,000	Portions of Bursum Road to the community of Mogollon was completely destroyed by flash flooding. All homes and business along the creek in Mogollon were flooded and damaged, many severely. Several vehicles were carried away, destroyed, and left in the bottom of the creek bed. The USFS delivered MREs, water, and sanitary supplies to Mogollon by foot and with 2 mules. An 83-year old Arizona man was found dead 8 miles downstream from where his vehicle was located and destroyed in Mineral Creek.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Mogollon	$10,000	Eight feet flow of water within Silver Creek washed debris over Highway 159 and surrounding bridges and yards.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Mogollon	-	The Hummingbird Saddle rain gage reported 3.93 inches of rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Newton. No flooding was observed.
July 2013	Flood	Mogollon	-	Morning rainfall that ranged from 1 to nearly 3 in some areas around the burn scar caused heavy flows in creeks in the area which in turn deposited debris on roads. Roads were closed until the Department of Transportation could clear them.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Mogollon	-	Bursum Road closed from near Mogollon east about 10 miles due to debris and flooding over the roadway.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Mogollon	-	Bursum Rd - NM 159 was closed due to flooding and burn scar debris from mile marker 2-25. Per reports, Silver Creek flooded Mogollon and blew out Bursum Rd. in several locations near Mogollon. Whitewater Creek also flooded and brought down a significant amount of ash. The Catwalk was closed due to flooding as well. Rainfall amounts ranging from 0.50 to 1.40 inches were recorded from RAWS and HADS sites in the area.
October 2015	Hail	Mogollon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Catron 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Socorro Mines Mining Company Mill, Fannie Hill	0.6 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001541 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Catron County	All 7 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.