BlockFrom the record
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Victor Ortega Cabin
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Ortega, Victor, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Carson National Forest, Cebolla, 87515
- When was it listed? January 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Tierra Amarilla
- National Register reference number. 87002456 - 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
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Victor Ortega Cabin between 1994 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 23 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 | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | BIG SNAG |
| 23 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | VEGA PAZ |
| 23 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Carson National Forest | CORRAL |
| 7 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | TERRERO |
| 6 July 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Carson National Forest | NUTRIAS CREEK |
| 5 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | TROUT LAKES WEST |
| 26 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | CHACON |
| 24 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CHIMNEY |
Storms near this property
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cebolla, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Lightning | Cebolla | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Cebolla | - | A trained spotter shared a photo of a funnel cloud that formed along U.S. Highway 84 near Cebolla. |
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 record | The nomination case file for reference 87002456 in Record Group 79. |
| Rio Arriba County | All 46 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.