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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Colfax County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Maxwell-Abreu and North (Martinez) Houses
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Maxwell--Abreu and North (Martinez) Houses - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Jct. of NM 121 and Rayado Creek Rd., NW corner, Cimarron, 87714
- When was it listed? June 1993
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rayado Ranch MPS
- Census division. Cimarron
- National Register reference number. 93000253 - 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
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Maxwell-Abreu and North (Martinez) Houses between 1993 and 2017, burning about 26,676 acres in total. 6 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 | 10 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ZAMORA |
| 8 July 2003 | Natural | 12 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | RAYADO |
| 25 July 2017 | Natural | 30 acres | Cimarron District | UU BAR |
| 25 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ORTEGA |
| 15 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MESA |
| 12 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | RAYADO |
| 1 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SUNNYSIDE |
| 26 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | URRACA |
Storms near this property
52 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cimarron, the town this property stands in, in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 40 hail, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Lightning | Cimarron | 1 killed, 1 hurt | State police reported that a man was struck by lightning and killed while riding his motorcycle along U.S. Highway 84 just west of Cimarron at mile post 308 Friday afternoon. |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F2) | Cimarron | 5 hurt, $1,680,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Cimarron | $250,000 | A trained spotter with the Philmont Scout Ranch shared reports and video of quarter to hen egg size hail pelting the grounds. Hail damaged trees, 60 vehicles, and tore through camping equipment such as unoccupied tents. Thankfully there were no reports of fatalities or injuries. Damage is an estimate. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Cimarron | $75,000 | Heavy rain of 4 to 6 inches fell in and near the town of Cimarron. Flash flooding occurred with several houses along U.S. Highway 64 flooded. Water flowed one to two feet deep through town. Two vehicles were washed off State Road 21. One person was injured attempting to rescue one of the motorists who was trapped in their vehicle. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Cimarron | $5,000 | Hail to golf ball-size damaged several cars in Cimarron. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Penny size diameter hail was observed along State Highway 58 just east of Cimarron. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Cimarron | - | A trained spotter at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron observed nickel size hail from a severe thunderstorm tracking just south of the town. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Golf ball size hail was observed at Philmont Scout Ranch from a severe thunderstorm. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Half dollar size hail was reported from a severe thunderstorm near Cimarron. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Cimarron | - | One inch hail was reported from a severe thunderstorm near Philmont Scout Ranch. The observer reported that the hail lasted about ten minutes. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Cimarron | - | A trained spotter measured 1.7 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm near Philmont Scout Ranch. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Hail up to the size of quarters at the Philmont Scout Ranch. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cimarron | - | A second thunderstorm in two hours produced quarter size hail at the Philmont Scout Ranch. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Cimarron | - | Four to five foot surge of water observed along the Cimarron River west of Cimarron. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Hail up to the size of nickles reported on Philmont Scout Ranch. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cimarron | - | Two large cottonwood trees were blown over onto NM-21. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Cimarron | - | Flash flooding forced water and debris over U.S. Highway 64 west of Cimarron. Highway was closed for clean up. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Most of the hail was nickel size or smaller but for a time there were some very near quarter size to slightly larger. Some standing water also and moderate winds. |
| September 2014 | Flash Flood | Cimarron | - | Emergency manager reporting that people were displaced from homes in Cimarron as heavy rains led creeks to overflow. Water was also reported in some homes. The village sustained extensive damage to roads from over 5 inches of rain and creek overflowing. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Quarter size hail reported at Ponil Campground. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Law Enforcement reported nickel size hail. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Dime to penny size hail 2 miles south southwest of Philmont Scout Ranch. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Cimarron | - | NWS employee from neighboring office was hiking in the area and employees from the Philmont Scout Ranch reported hail the size of golfballs associated with this storm. Numerous tree branches downed across the ranch property. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Quarter size hail 1 mile east of Cimarron. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Quarter size hail reported 5.7 miles east southeast of Cimarron. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Hail reported at Philmont Scout Ranch HQ. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Cimarron | - | Heavy debris runoff and flash flooding from recent burnt areas were reported from both Ponil and North Ponil Canyons on the Philmont Scout Ranch. An archaelogical team had advanced warning and moved to safe terrain ahead of the dangerous flows. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Cimarron was pounded with hail of 1 to 2 inches in diameter. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Dime hail covered the ground to one inch deep. |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Cimarron | - | A small tornado was observed on the Tooth of Time ridge southwest of Cimarron. |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Cimarron | - | A second small tornado developed on the CS Ranch east of Cimarron. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Hail ranging from pea- to quarter-size accumulated first to near four inches deep then to a total of nine inches deep in Cimarron during two separate hail events. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Storms over the county produced widespread hail which reached depths of two inches deep at Lake Maloya northeast of Raton. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Cimarron | - | Storms over the county produced widespread hail which reached depths of two inches deep at Lake Maloya northeast of Raton. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Flash Flood | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Cimarron | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
859 digitised pages3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 127 issues, 859 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 |
|---|---|
| The Cimarron Citizen | 1908 to 19?? |
| The Cimarron News and Press | 1907 to 19?? |
| The Cimarron News and Cimarron Citizen | 19?? |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Casa del Gavilan | 5.4 miles | 2017 |
 | Villa Philmonte Historic District | 6.4 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93000253 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.