Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The Hot Springs Post Office, or Truth or Consequences Main Post Office at 400 Main Street in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico was built in 1940. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Sierra County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1940.
National Register reference number.90000141- 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
20 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 20 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Truth or Consequences Main
between 1993 and 2017, burning about 135 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
15
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Debris and open burning
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
54 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Truth or Consequences Main: 29 past producers, 12 prospects, 6 unknowns, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Truth or Consequences, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 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.
Major street flooding was reported in Truth or Consequences, with the downtown area and points east hardest hit. Water entered businesses and the high school causing damage.
Hail accumulated to 4 inches on Interstate 25 south of Truth or Consequences, leading to multiple vehicle accidents. The largest hail reported by NMDOT was golf ball size.
A thunderstorm brought about 3 inches of rain, most of it falling within an hour, which resulted in major street flooding and some road wash outs. Highway 51 east of town had to be closed.
Two inches of rain fell within 70 minutes (one inch in 20 minutes) and caused street flooding throughout Truth or Consequences. Not far to the south, runoff from heavy rain led to a brief closure of NM 152 between Caballo and Hillsboro.
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
4 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.
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.
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