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San Lorenzo Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The San Lorenzo Historic District, in San Lorenzo, Grant County, New Mexico, is an 80 acres (32 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article San Lorenzo Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Roughly Galaz St. between C and H Sts., San Lorenzo, 88041
  • When was it listed? May 1988
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Mimbres Valley MRA
  • Census division. Mimbres
  • National Register reference number. 88000480 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of San Lorenzo Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 390 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Natural11
Debris and open burning7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
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
6 September 2012Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEPT 6TH
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMILLER
3 August 2011Natural3.0 acresGila National ForestHOT SPRINGS
17 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDOCTOR
9 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLAWS
6 July 2009Natural5.5 acresGila National ForestBEAR TRAP
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOWER ACLAIN
3 July 2002Smoking1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLION

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of San Lorenzo Historic District: 10 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Perlite, Zinc. 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
Materials Pit 66-50-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mill AditZinc, Lead, Silver, CopperUnknown
Unnamed ProspectZinc, Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Silver, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Box Well Graben Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 1PerliteOccurrence
Unnamed MineCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed MineCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Lorenzo, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 5 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000Flash FloodSan Lorenzo$50,000A slow moving cluster of thunderstorms dropped very heavy rain around San Lorenzo, which resulted in the Mimbres River flooding its banks and submerging Highway 152. The highway was closed, with the water level rising 15 feet above normal to cover a bridge. Some homes in San Lorenzo experienced water damage.
August 2021Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-Highway 61 south of San Lorenzo was impassable due to heavy rain and resulting flash flooding.
July 2013Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-A spotter reported cars that were stuck and couldn't pass through deep water on Highway 35 near mile marker 11 about 3 miles south of Mimbres.
July 2013Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-Gallinas Canyon flooded at the low water crossing along the De-La-O Road just northeast of Sherman.
July 2013Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-An NWS Employee reported some water crossing the highway near the intersection of Highway 35 and Highway 152 near San Lorenzo.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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

6 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
Menard-Galaz House0.7 miles1988
Acklin Store1.4 miles1988
Antonio Torres House1.4 miles1988
Luciana B. Grijalva House1.7 miles1988
Mauricio Portillo House1.7 miles1988
Jesus Valencia House2.3 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000480 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant CountyAll 45 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.
  • 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.