Mangas Mountain Lookout Complex

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Mangas Mountain Lookout Complex, on Mangas Mountain near Mangas, New Mexico, was built in 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Mangas Mountain Lookout Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Catron County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1934.

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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mangas Mountain, Mangas, 87821
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Quemado
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 87002471 - 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Mangas Mountain Lookout Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,596 acres in total. 83 started naturally. 2 were 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	83
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	PATTERSON
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
16 September 2017	Natural	4.5 acres	Gila National Forest	VALLE
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	EL MORRO #2
7 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
6 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	GALLINA
6 August 2020	Natural	14 acres	Gila National Forest	MANGUS
30 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	TUB

Every fire 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002471 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.