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Pecos National Historical Park
A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“Pecos National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in San Miguel County, New Mexico. The park, operated by the National Park Service, encompasses thousands of acres of landscape infused with historical elements from prehistoric archaeological ruins to 19th-century ranches, to a battlefield of the American Civil War.”
Wikipedia article Pecos National Historical Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1965 · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.91000822- 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
83 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Pecos National Historical Park
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 4 were 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
35
Natural
30
Debris and open burning
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Pecos National Historical Park: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Pecos, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 wildfire, 1 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.
The Pecos River, already swollen by late season snowmelt, rose quickly during 12 to 18 hours of steady rain which totaled nearly 3 inches in the watershed above Pecos. The combined heavy runoff caused damage to several private bridges and filled low crossings with mud and debris.
Numerous reports of hail damage just north of Pecos from significant hailstones up to hen egg size in diameter. Several homes sustained window, skylight, and roof damage, including dents to a metal roof, as well as substantial damage to at least three vehicles.
The Pecos River breached its banks in Pecos Canyon. NM 63 north of Pecos was closed due to flooding. A small creek behind residences rose fast and forced evacuations of nearby residences.
Heavy rain of near 1 inch over the Viveash Burn area northeast of Pecos sent a 5 foot surge of ash and debris down Cow Creek. A large fish kill was reported at the confluence with the Pecos River.
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
3 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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