Point of Rocks Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Colfax County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Jones Well Rd., 1.5 mi. E of Point of Rocks Rd., Springer, 87740
When was it listed? April 1994
Category. district
Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
Census division. Springer
National Register reference number. 94000328 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Point of Rocks Historic District between 2016 and 2019, burning about 61 acres in total. 5 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	5

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
20 August 2019	Natural	32 acres	Cimarron District	20-20360194X
20 August 2019	Natural	15 acres	Cimarron District	20-20390198X
20 July 2016	Natural	12 acres	Cimarron District	LAKE
18 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	POINT OF ROCKS
8 June 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Cimarron District	JEFFERS

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Storms near this property

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springer, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 46 hail, 4 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 1993	Hail	Springer	$5,000,000	Thunderstorms produced quarter-size hail in Raton at 1415 MST and dime-size hail in Maxwell at 1450 MST. Thunderstorms redeveloped in Colfax County later, producing a hail storm that lasted about 40 minutes in the Springer area. Baseball-size hail damaged about 55 state vehicles at the New Mexico Boys School just northwest of Springer. Eleven building sustained roofing, window or ventilation damage, including the Trades center, in which all 22 overhead skylights were broken. The storm caused many branches and limbs to break away from trees, littering the campus. School officials estimate the total damage to exceed $500,000.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Springer	$50,000	Heavy rain near Springer flooded U.S. Highway 56, making it impassable. A barn along the highway had 4 inches of standing water while a house and its backyard had 2 to 3 inches of standing water. Damages are estimated.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Springer	$20,000	Utility lines and power poles were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Hail	Springer	$2,000	Long lasting hail with strong winds and numerous tree branches downed. A report on twitter also indicated large hail broke a plate glass window in a shop in Springer. Power went out and did not come back on until 3pm local time on July 14th. Damage is an estimate.
August 2025	Hail	Springer	-	The public and a trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm passing over Springer, NM.
October 2024	Hail	Springer	-	A strong storm dropped penny size hail with accumulations of 2 to 3 inches.
June 2023	Hail	Springer	-	Supercell moving east dropped golf ball sized hail southeast of Springer.
July 2023	Hail	Springer	-	A supercell moving southeast produced quarter to golf ball sized hail in Springer.
June 2023	Hail	Springer	-	Supercell moving east produced ping pong to hen egg size hail in Springer.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Springer	-	Small tree limbs broken from 60 mph winds near Springer.
September 2017	Hail	Springer	-	Hail up to the size of half dollars reported in Springer.
June 2017	Hail	Springer	-	Hail up to the size of golf balls along with high winds. A three inch tree limb was downed.
June 2015	Hail	Springer	-	Trained spotter reported quarter to half dollar size hail near Springer.
June 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Springer	-	Southern edge of multi-cellular thunderstorm complex produced a brief landspout tornado with a brown dust swirl. No damage reported.
May 2012	Hail	Springer	-	Ping pong ball size hail reported 8 miles south southwest of Springer.
June 2012	Hail	Springer	-	Quarter size hail 1 mile north of Springer.
May 2010	Hail	Springer	-	Golf ball sized hail started at 510 pm MST along Interstate 25. Sized was reduced to dimes by 515 pm.
May 2010	Hail	Springer	-	Hail last 10 minutes along Interstate 25.
July 2007	Hail	Springer	-	Many vehicles were damaged by the hail.
June 2002	Hail	Springer	-	Golfball hail reported 6 inches deep on Interstate 25 north of Springer.
July 2001	Funnel Cloud	Springer	-	A brief funnel cloud was reported by State Police.
August 2001	Funnel Cloud	Springer	-	Guards from the Springer Boys Ranch facility reported sighting a brief funnel cloud.
June 1998	Hail	Springer	-	A storm near Springer produced about 15 minutes of marble hail with a stones to golfball size.
May 1997	Hail	Springer	-	State Police reported marble hail covering Interstate 25 to three inches deep south of Springer.
October 1997	Funnel Cloud	Springer	-	At least two funnel clouds were sighted south of Springer.
August 1993	Hail	Springer	-	Thunderstorms produced quarter-size hail in Raton at 1415 MST and dime-size hail in Maxwell at 1450 MST. Thunderstorms redeveloped in Colfax County later, producing a hail storm that lasted about 40 minutes in the Springer area. Baseball-size hail damaged about 55 state vehicles at the New Mexico Boys School just northwest of Springer. Eleven building sustained roofing, window or ventilation damage, including the Trades center, in which all 22 overhead skylights were broken. The storm caused many branches and limbs to break away from trees, littering the campus. School officials estimate the total damage to exceed $500,000.
June 2011	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
September 2003	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
September 2003	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
August 2001	Funnel Cloud	Springer	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Springer	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other 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
	Dorsey Mansion	4.8 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000328 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.