BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Guadalupe County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Abandoned Route 66-Cuervo to NM 156
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- Listed as. Abandoned Route 66--Cuervo to NM 156 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Cuervo SW to jct. with NM 156, Cuervo, 88417
- When was it listed? November 1993
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
- Census division. Santa Rosa
- National Register reference number. 93001206 - 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
13 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Abandoned Route 66-Cuervo to NM 156 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,614 acres in total. 2 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 | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROAD |
| 16 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CUERVO |
| 25 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Las Vegas District | 20-40220208X |
| 21 June 2017 | Natural | 50 acres | Las Vegas District | CORRIENTE |
| 10 May 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 8 April 2009 | Natural | 200 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BENT RIM |
| 3 April 2018 | Smoking | 140 acres | Las Vegas District | CORN |
| 11 April 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CHAVEZ |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Abandoned Route 66-Cuervo to NM 156: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, 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 62-33-S | Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuervo, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuervo | $100,000 | Large wooden doors were blown off a barn. Several trees had severe damage. A plastic roof on a greenhouse was blown off. A metal tail of a windmill was wrapped around the wheel base. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Cuervo | - | A storm chaser reported flooding on secondary roads near I-40 west of Newkirk. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Cuervo | - | A trained spotter reported one inch hail from a severe thunderstorm near Cuervo. The spotter also reported that the hail accumulated to about an inch deep, but impacts are known. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Cuervo | - | Chaser reported a tornado east/southeast of Santa Rosa on the ground for 10 minutes. |
| May 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Cuervo | - | A motorist traveling along U.S. Highway 84 observed a well-developed funnel cloud dissipating several miles to the north of highway. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Cuervo | - | Ping pong size hail at the Cuervo Exxon station. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Cuervo | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Cuervo | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001206 in Record Group 79. |
| Guadalupe County | All 6 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.