Jesus Valencia House

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Jesus Valencia House is a historic house in San Juan, New Mexico. It was built in 1911 for Jesus Valencia.”
Wikipedia article Jesus Valencia House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1911.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Valencia, Jesus, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of NM 61, San Juan, 88041
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Mimbres Valley MRA
Census division. Bayard-Santa Rita
When was it built? 1911
National Register reference number. 88000506 - 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Jesus Valencia House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. 6 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	25
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
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
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
18 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	4.3 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ACKLIN

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 Jesus Valencia House: 11 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit 66-50-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
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
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2006	Flash Flood	San 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mauricio Portillo House	0.6 miles	1988
Antonio Torres House	0.9 miles	1988
San Juan Historic District	1.3 miles	1988
Menard-Galaz House	1.6 miles	1988
Acklin Store	2.2 miles	1988
San Lorenzo Historic District	2.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000506 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.