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Aguayo Family Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Aguayo Family Homestead, near Nogal, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”

Wikipedia article Aguayo Family Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Tortolita Canyon, W of Nogal, Nogal, 88341
  • When was it listed? December 1995
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Homesteads on the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico MPS
  • Census division. Carrizozo
  • National Register reference number. 95001478 - 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Aguayo Family Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,713 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 4 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
Natural40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLincoln National ForestBONITO 3
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLincoln National ForestBONITO 2
6 September 2005Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestWET
22 September 2003Natural7.0 acresLincoln National ForestGEORGE
21 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division569
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLincoln National ForestNOGAL
9 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFERN
3 August 2009Natural1.0 acresLincoln National ForestSKULL

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Aguayo Family Homestead: 42 unknowns, 19 past producers, 15 occurrences, 10 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Commercial MineCopper, Lead, Silver, Gold, ZincPast Producer1885
Crow MineGold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Grey Goose MineSilver, LeadUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mudpuppy-Waterdog ProspectCopper, Gold, Molybdenum, TelluriumOccurrenceMolybdenite, Pyrite
Old Red FoxLead, Zinc, Silver, MolybdenumPast Producer
Renowned MineSilver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Renowned O.K. MineLead, Silver, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1885, 1957
Rialto Molybdenum ProspectMolybdenum, Copper, GoldOccurrence1894
Suprise GroupCopper, Silver, Zinc, Molybdenum, Gold, LeadOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Molybdenite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nogal, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Flash FloodNogal$25,000A partial road collapse occurred along Old Bonito Lake Rd due to flash flood undercuts and encroachments. This collapse was located about 2 miles west of the intersection with State Road 37.
August 2021Flash FloodNogal-Heavy rain near Nogal forced the closure of U.S. Highway 380 from mile marker 74 to mile marker 76. Per a trained spotter, the bridge in the area was unsafe to cross as road surfaces had been damaged from repeated rounds of heavy rain over the summer.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Nogal-A brief landspout tornado was reported over rural countryside northwest of Nogal.
June 2019HailNogal-Nickel size hail reported near Bonito Lake.
June 2019HailNogal-Quarter size hail was reported northeast of Bonito Lake.
June 2017HailNogal-A second round of storms produced quarter size hail in Capitan.
May 2017Funnel CloudNogal-Several observers around Carrizozo reported a well developed funnel cloud near Carrizo Mountain a couple miles northeast of town.
October 1998HailNogal-no account filed
August 1997HailNogal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Hopeful Lode3.6 miles1995
Mesa Ranger Station Barn, Lincoln County, New Mexico3.8 miles2025
El Paso And Southwestern Railway Water Supply System5.0 miles1979
Monjeau Lookout7.3 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001478 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln CountyAll 22 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.