NAN Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“NAN Ranch, also known as Y Bar NAN Ranch, is a ranch in Faywood, New Mexico, that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The property was developed as a ranch beginning in the late-1860s by John Brockman, who grew corn, alfalfa, and several types of fruit and bred cattle.”
Wikipedia article NAN Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. E of NM 61, Dwyer, 88041
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Mimbres Valley MRA
Census division. Bayard-Santa Rita
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88000509 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of NAN Ranch between 1992 and 2011, burning about 2,960 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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	7
Natural	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
30 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	710 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TWO-C
5 June 2011	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LAMPBRIGHT
30 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NAN
30 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OVER THE HIL
12 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BROWN
11 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,850 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WHITE HORSE
29 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STEEP
11 February 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SIMON

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 NAN Ranch: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit 58-117-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Materials Pit 58-120-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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
Ramon Baca House	4.7 miles	1988
Trinidad Andazola House	4.8 miles	1988
Soliz-Baca House	4.9 miles	1988
Maria J. and Juan Trujillo House	5.0 miles	1988
Tom Eby Storage Building	5.0 miles	1988
San Juan Teacherage	7.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000509 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.