BlockFrom the record
One of 40 National Register listings published here for Taos County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tres Piedras Administrative Site, Old
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- Address. W of US 285, N of Tres Piedras, Tres Piedras, 87577
- When was it listed? August 1993
- Category. district
- Census division. Tres Piedras
- National Register reference number. 92000341 - 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
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Tres Piedras Administrative Site, Old between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 54 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | PIEDRAS |
| 7 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Carson National Forest | TP WELL 1&2 |
| 7 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | ROAD TANK |
| 24 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Carson National Forest | BONE YARD |
| 24 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | SNAG |
| 6 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | LARGO |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tres Piedras Administrative Site, Old: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tres Piedras, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Tres Piedras | $10,000 | A brief tornado, likely a landspout, occurred two miles south of the Highway 64 and 285 intersection. The tornado tore the roof off a barn and ripped up some fencing. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Tres Piedras | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Tres Piedras | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Tres Piedras | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tres Piedras Railroad Water Tower | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92000341 in Record Group 79. |
| Taos County | All 40 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.