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Villa Philmonte Historic District
Built in 1926 (Mission Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Villa Philmonte is a large ranch home located outside of Cimarron, New Mexico, on Philmont Scout Ranch, owned by the Boy Scouts of America. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as part of Villa Philmonte Historic District, which included two contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and two contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article Villa Philmonte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 30 National Register listings published here for Colfax County · listed in 1995 · category: District · built in 1926, Mission Revival architecture, by Edward Buehler Delk.
National Register reference number.95001018- 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
25 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Villa Philmonte Historic District
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 27,904 acres in total. 9 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
11
Natural
9
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Villa Philmonte Historic District: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3 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.
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
4 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.
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.
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