BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 1988 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
White Sands National Monument Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Address. US 70/82, Alamogordo, 88310
- When was it listed? June 1988
- Category. district
- Census division. Alamogordo
- Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture, National Park Service rustic
- Architect. Lyle E. Bennett
- National Register reference number. 88000751 - 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
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of White Sands National Monument Historic District in 1996, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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 | 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 February 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LINDA LANE |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of White Sands National Monument Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garton Well | Geothermal | Unknown |
Storms near this property
26 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alamogordo, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Alamogordo | $1,300,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Alamogordo | $600,000 | Heavy rainfall along the western slopes of the southern Sacramento Mountains led to excessive runoff and major flooding in Alamogordo and Boles Acres. Numerous roads throughout the area were closed, covered with water and debris. There were also some rescues of people trapped in their homes. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | $25,000 | Thunderstorm outflow blew down billboards, power lines and trees, and left at least one house without a roof. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | $20,000 | Reports of trees down across the county from winds. Car windows were broken and a roof was blown off a trailer home in Alamogordo. A transformer fell into a tree and the tree then fell into a house. About 2000 people in the area were without power for several hours. Some locally dense blowing dust was also reported with the storm. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Alamogordo | $10,000 | A cluster of thunderstorms dropped an estimated 3 inches of rain on the western Sacramento Mountains between Alamogordo and Cloudcroft. Mudslides resulted and caused the closure of US Highway 82 for at least two hours. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Alamogordo | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Alamogordo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | $1,000 | Power line blown down in Alamogordo. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees in Alamogordo. |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Alamogordo | - | A picture from Alamogordo showed 2.75 inches of rain fallen during the day. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Alamogordo | - | Approximately 3.5 inches of rain fell in one hour in Alamogordo. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | - | A tree fell on top of the public library. |
| July 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Alamogordo | - | A weather spotter from Holloman AFB reported a small funnel cloud in association with a strong thunderstorm. The cloud base was rather low and described as below the mountain tops. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Alamogordo | - | Significant street flooding and arroyo flooding occurred in and around Alamogordo. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Alamogordo | - | Nickel size hail covered the ground at a fire station in north Alamogordo. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Alamogordo | - | Heavy rains from strong thunderstorms produced between one and two inches of rain in an hour. This resulted in extensive urban and arroyo flooding across the city of Alamogordo. Water reached near the first floor of homes in some areas. There were numerous reports of stranded motorists and stalled vehicles. There were no injuries or deaths. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Alamogordo | - | A strong thunderstorm dropped between one and three inches of rain in the Alamogordo area. This resulted in widespread urban and arroyo flooding. The flooding forced the state police to close portions of U.S. route 70 near. Many streets were flooded in Alamogordo with numerous reports of stalled automobiles. Water was deep enough in some intersections to cause vehicles to float. There were no injuries or deaths. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | - | A line of strong thunderstorms accompanied by very strong winds moved through the Alamogordo area during the late afternoon and early evening hours. Wind gusts of 112 mph were reported from at least one automated sensor site on the White Sands Missile Range and winds of at least 75 mph were reported at Holloman AFB before the station's wind equipment broke. Considerable tree damage was noted around the area however damage to structures was limited. The worst damage was found in the Alamogordo subdivision of Bolles Acres. The back porch/deck of a residence was destroyed, as was a 20 foot long trailer , and a small barn constructed of sheet metal on a 2X4 frame. Debris from the barn was carried about 100 yds and struck a site-built stucco home with enough force to penetrate an exposed wall and protrude into the inside of the structure. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Alamogordo | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamogordo | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Alamogordo | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Alamogordo | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Alamogordo | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Alamogordo | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Alamogordo | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
2,599 digitised pages2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 490 issues, 2,599 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Alamogordo News-Advertiser | 1912 to 1914 |
| The Alamogordo News | 1899 to 1912 |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88000751 in Record Group 79. |
| Otero County | All 24 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.