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Photograph of Nuestra Senora de Luz Church and Cemetery
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Nuestra Senora de Luz Church and Cemetery

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Nuestra Senora de Luz Church and Cemetery is a historic church building 13 miles southeast of Santa Fe, north of Interstate 25 frontage road in Canoncito, New Mexico. It was built in 1880 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”

Wikipedia article Nuestra Senora de Luz Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1880.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 13 mi. SE of Santa Fe, N of I-25 frontage rd., Canoncito
  • When was it listed? December 1995
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Religious Properties of New Mexico MPS
  • Census division. Santa Fe South
  • When was it built? 1880
  • National Register reference number. 95001452 - 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Nuestra Senora de Luz Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWS FIRE
28 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCOUGAR RIDGE
9 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestARMANDO
7 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestORTIGA
11 August 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROSE
11 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPIRATE
11 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCONFERENCE
10 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestBILL

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nuestra Senora de Luz Church and Cemetery: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
KennedyIronPast Producer
Kennedy MineIronPast Producer1900
Paytiamo DepositCopperOccurrence1942
PaytianoCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Santa Fe Trail-Apache Canyon Bridge Site2.1 miles2012
Apache Canyon Railroad Bridge3.0 miles1979
Pflueger General Merchandise Store and Annex Saloon5.6 miles1987
Seton Village6.8 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001452 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Santa Fe CountyAll 79 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.