Carrisa Lookout Complex

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

From the record

“The Carrisa Lookout Complex, in Lincoln National Forest in or near Long Canyon, New Mexico Long Canyon was built in 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Carrisa Lookout Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero 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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lincoln National Forest, Long Canyon, 88354
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Southeast Otero
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 87002488 - 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

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Carrisa Lookout Complex between 1993 and 2020, burning about 997 acres in total. 52 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	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	JEFFERS SPRING
7 September 2000	Natural	10 acres	Lincoln National Forest	SILVER TANK
24 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	PENDLETON
4 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TRES MARIAS
19 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	LEWIS
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	LOGAN
5 July 1994	Natural	4.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	not named
3 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	BOARD

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carrisa Lookout Complex: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Escondio Magnetite	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Otero 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
	Circle Cross Ranch Headquarters	5.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002488 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otero County	All 24 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.