Dawson Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Colfax County · listed in 1992 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Approximately 4 mi. NW of jct. of US 64 and the Dawson Rd., Dawson, 87740
When was it listed? April 1992
Category. site
Census division. Raton
National Register reference number. 92000249 - 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

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dawson Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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 August 2001	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DAWSON
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RAIL
22 August 2001	Natural	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GRAVEL
9 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	METAL BRIDGE
30 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cimarron District	OLD RR 1
21 July 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SALTPETER
6 June 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STOUT
5 June 2007	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000249 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Colfax County	All 30 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.