Antonio Torres House

Built in 1930 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Antonio Torres House is a historic house in San Lorenzo, Grant County, New Mexico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Antonio Torres House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1930, vernacular architecture.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Torres, Antonio, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of NM 90 W of Mimbres River bridge, San Lorenzo, 88041
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Mimbres Valley MRA
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 88000505 - 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

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Antonio Torres House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 422 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined	28
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SEPT 6TH
15 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MILLER
3 August 2011	Natural	3.0 acres	Gila National Forest	HOT SPRINGS
9 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LAWS
3 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LOWER ACLAIN
3 July 2002	Smoking	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LION
28 July 2002	Natural	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TOWER
19 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PALOMINO

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Antonio Torres House: 11 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit 66-50-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mill Adit	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper	Unknown
Unnamed Prospect	Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Occurrence
Box Well Graben Perlite Deposit	Perlite	Occurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 1	Perlite	Occurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 2	Perlite	Occurrence
Unnamed Mine	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence
Unnamed Mine	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2000	Flash Flood	San Lorenzo	$50,000	A 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 2021	Flash Flood	San Lorenzo	-	Highway 61 south of San Lorenzo was impassable due to heavy rain and resulting flash flooding.
July 2013	Flash Flood	San 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 2013	Flash Flood	San Lorenzo	-	Gallinas Canyon flooded at the low water crossing along the De-La-O Road just northeast of Sherman.
July 2013	Flash Flood	San 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mauricio Portillo House	0.4 miles	1988
Menard-Galaz House	0.7 miles	1988
Jesus Valencia House	0.9 miles	1988
San Lorenzo Historic District	1.4 miles	1988
Acklin Store	1.5 miles	1988
San Juan Historic District	2.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 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.