Built in 1912 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Palace Hotel in Gallup, New Mexico, at 235 W. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Palace Hotel (Gallup, New Mexico), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 25 National Register listings published here for McKinley County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1912, Richardsonian Romanesque.
National Register reference number.87002216- 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
1 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Palace Hotel
in 1996, burning about 23 acres in total. None 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
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Palace Hotel: 5 unknowns, 5 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Uranium, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Gallup, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain.
The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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.
A 30-year man drowned while trying to cross the Hunters Point arroyo on Navajo Tribal lands southwest of Gallup. Two men and their vehicle became bogged in the arroyo. The survivor reported being hit by three waves of water and mud. The last wave separated the victim from the vehicle. His body was recovered 7 miles downstream.
A 56-year old woman drowned near Ojo Encino after seeking shelter in a culvert from a rainstorm. The woman and a companion were swept from the culvert by runoff from locally heavy rain.
One to two inches of rain from a slow moving thunderstorm caused wide spread street flooding in Gallup. Debris clogged city drainage which aggravated flooding in the older down town section. Water reached 18 to 24 inches deep in several business and two homes.
Flash flooding occurred along Maloney Street between 1st and 6th streets. Several of these intersections were closed as water was halfway up vehicles. A few cars were stuck in the water.
A video shared via Facebook showed flash flooding in the Gallup area. Area and timing is estimated via radar as video was made unavailable shortly after it was shared. No damages are known.
Locally heavy rains produced considerable street flooding in Gallup. The Gallup Airport reported rainfall of 1.97 inches ending at 7AM September 9, for a new 24-hour daily record precipitation amount.
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.
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.
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