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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Mora County · listed in 1994 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ocate Creek Crossing and the Santa Fe Trail-Mora County Trail Segments
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- Listed as. Ocate Creek Crossing and the Santa Fe Trail--Mora County Trail Segments - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1.75 mi. N of jct. of NM 127 and the road to Mora Ranch, Ocate, 87752
- When was it listed? April 1994
- Category. site
- Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
- Census division. Wagon Mound
- National Register reference number. 94000329 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ocate Creek Crossing and the Santa Fe Trail-Mora County Trail Segments between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,036 acres in total. 7 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2007 | Natural | 200 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 22 July 2016 | Natural | 30 acres | Las Vegas District | UU BAR |
| 2 July 2020 | Natural | 25 acres | Las Vegas District | 21-40020012X |
| 15 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,580 acres | Las Vegas District | NARANJOS |
| 13 June 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | YUCCA |
| 18 May 2006 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 15 May 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | STANLEY |
| 6 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MORA |
Storms near this property
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocate, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 16 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Ocate | - | Very heavy rain and quarter sized hail falling at the time of report. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Ocate | - | A trained spotter near Ocate reported 1 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm moving northeastward through the area. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Ocate | - | A COOP observer near Ocate reported nickel size hail with a strong thunderstorm that moved southeast over the area. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Ocate | - | Hail up to the size of ping pong ball and very heavy rainfall impacted folks northwest of Ocate. |
| August 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Ocate | - | A trained spotter and the COOP observer for Ocate reported two brief funnel clouds. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Ocate | - | Half dollar hail in Ocate. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Ocate | - | Quarter size hail lasted 10 minutes and covered the ground. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Ocate | - | No damage was reported. The tornado stirred up grass and dust near Ocate Crater. |
| August 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Ocate | - | Skywarn spotter reported brief funnel cloud. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocate | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Ocate | - | 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 94000329 in Record Group 79. |
| Mora County | All 14 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.