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Tom Eby Storage Building

Built in 1888. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Tom Eby Storage Building, near Dwyer, New Mexico, was built in 1888 or later. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article Tom Eby Storage Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1888.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Eby, Tom, Storage Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. W of NM 61 and N of Eby Ranch Rd., Dwyer, 88034
  • When was it listed? May 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Mimbres Valley MRA
  • Census division. Bayard-Santa Rita
  • When was it built? 1888
  • National Register reference number. 88000514 - 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Tom Eby Storage Building between 1993 and 2009, burning about 1,475 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/undetermined5
Natural1
Smoking1

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
30 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNAN
12 June 2006Smoking1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
12 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBROWN
10 June 2009Natural1,120 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeTAYLOR MT
1 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSIMON
10 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHARLEY
11 February 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSIMON

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tom Eby Storage Building: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 3PerliteOccurrence
Materials Pit 58-117-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 58-120-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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

5 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
Maria J. and Juan Trujillo House0.3 miles1988
Soliz-Baca House0.4 miles1988
Trinidad Andazola House0.8 miles1988
Ramon Baca House1.6 miles1988
NAN Ranch5.0 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000514 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.