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San Juan Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The San Juan Historic District in San Juan, New Mexico is a 23 acres (9.3 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included 14 contributing buildings and two non-contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article San Juan 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. 2261--2291 NM 61, San Juan, 88041
  • When was it listed? May 1988
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Mimbres Valley MRA
  • Census division. Bayard-Santa Rita
  • National Register reference number. 88000481 - 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of San Juan Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,486 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined19
Natural5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
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
3 August 2011Natural3.0 acresGila National ForestHOT SPRINGS
9 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLAWS
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOWER ACLAIN
3 July 2002Smoking1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLION
18 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.3 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionACKLIN
9 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionYUCCA
5 June 2006Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of San Juan Historic District: 10 occurrences, 2 past producers. 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
Unnamed ProspectZinc, Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Box Well Graben Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 1PerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 2PerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 3PerliteOccurrence
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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Juan, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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
August 2006Flash FloodSan Juan-Highway 61 was washed out near San Juan. Also, further northwest (near Mimbres) a Jeep was swept away by the rain swollen Mimbres River. The driver survived without injury.

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
Jesus Valencia House1.3 miles1988
George O. Perrault House1.4 miles1988
San Juan Teacherage1.4 miles1988
Mauricio Portillo House1.9 miles1988
Antonio Torres House2.2 miles1988
Menard-Galaz House2.9 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000481 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.