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Glorieta Baldy Lookout Tower

Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Glorieta Baldy Lookout Tower, in Santa Fe National Forest near La Cueva, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, was built in 1940. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article Glorieta Baldy Lookout Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1940.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Santa Fe National Forest, La Cueva, 87535
  • When was it listed? January 1988
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
  • When was it built? 1940
  • National Register reference number. 87002492 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Glorieta Baldy Lookout Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 47 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
Natural47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHAGEN
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestGLORIETA CREEK
8 August 2011Natural2.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestGULCH
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRACK
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestALAMITOS
5 August 2013Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestALAMITOS
4 August 2000Natural3.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestBLACK
27 August 2000Natural1.5 acresSanta Fe National ForestGLORIETA

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glorieta Baldy Lookout Tower: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairview Lode MineCopper, SilverOccurrence1910
KunklinCopperProspect

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Glorieta Pass Battlefield6.1 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87002492 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Miguel CountyAll 104 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.