Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Weed Lookout Tower, in Lincoln National Forest in Otero County, New Mexico near Sacramento, New Mexico, was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Weed Lookout Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1926.
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Southeast Otero
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number.87002487- 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
84 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Weed Lookout Tower
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,447 acres in total. 51 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
51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Recreation and ceremony
7
Debris and open burning
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Fireworks
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
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
1 working within 5 miles of Weed Lookout Tower: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sacramento, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
A thunderstorm dropped heavy rain on an area scarred from a recent forest fire. Mudslides, ash and debris covered roads and damaged some buildings around Sacramento.
A local weather spotter recorded 1.50 inches of rainfall from a thunderstorm that passed over his location. Minor street flooding was reported in southeast portions of Timberon, NM.
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.
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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