BlockFrom the record
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Cibola County · listed in 1994 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Route 66 Rural Historic District: Laguna to McCarty's
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- Address. NM 124 between the I-40 interchanges, Cubero, 87007
- When was it listed? January 1994
- Category. district
- Also known as. Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
- Census division. Laguna
- National Register reference number. 93001466 - 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
181 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Route 66 Rural Historic District: Laguna to McCarty's between 1992 and 2020, burning about 683 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 77 |
| Smoking | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Fireworks | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | SEMI |
| 23 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Laguna Agency | TRUCKER |
| 9 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Laguna Agency | INTERSTATE |
| 29 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Laguna Agency | MIDNIGHT |
| 29 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Laguna Agency | SHINGLE |
| 19 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Laguna Agency | M/M 106 |
| 10 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.3 acres | Laguna Agency | FLOWER MTN. |
| 7 July 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Laguna Agency | SHOP |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Route 66 Rural Historic District: Laguna to McCarty's: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Bentonite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bentonite Deposit | Bentonite | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 61-16-S | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Paraje | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Woodrow Mine | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Cubero Land Grant Association Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| San Fidel Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cubero, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Cubero | $75,000 | A trained spotter reported major flash flooding around Cubero. Several roads were washed out or inundated with water. Many other roads were forced to closed. The local fire station was also flooded. Damages are estimated. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Cubero | - | A trained spotter near Cubero reported quarter size hail. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Cubero | - | Hail to the size of quarters accumulated several inches deep near Mount Taylor. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Cubero | - | Penny size hail and heavy rainfall. Minor flooding in area arroyos. |
| October 1998 | Hail | Cubero | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Acoma Curio Shop | 5.0 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001466 in Record Group 79. |
| Cibola County | All 11 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.