Bueyeros School

Built in 1936 (Pueblo Revival Style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Bueyeros School is a historic school building located on State Road 102 in Bueyeros, New Mexico. The school was built in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration as part of its efforts to combat rural unemployment in New Mexico.”
Wikipedia article Bueyeros School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Harding County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1936, Pueblo Revival Style architecture.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. NM 102, 0.25 mi. W of Bueyeros Church, Bueyeros, 88415
When was it listed? March 1996
Category. building
Also known as. New Deal in New Mexico MPS
Census division. North Harding
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture
National Register reference number. 96000265 - 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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bueyeros School between 2004 and 2006, burning about 153 acres in total. 1 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	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
30 April 2006	Natural	150 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
19 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CAR

Every fire recorded in Harding County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bueyeros School: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit 60-20-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Harding County

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bueyeros, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bueyeros	$4,000	A large 4 foot diameter tree was knocked over by the strong wind gusts.
June 2025	Hail	Bueyeros	-	Hen egg size hail was observed in far northeast Harding County from a supercell thunderstorm.
June 2019	Hail	Bueyeros	-	Quarter size hail reported several miles south of Bueyeros.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bueyeros	-	High winds pulled plants from ground and downed several tree limbs. Very heavy rainfall and small hail accompanied the high winds.
August 2017	Hail	Bueyeros	-	Hail up to the size of pennies stripped leaves off of trees.
October 2023	Hail	Bueyeros	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Bueyeros	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Bueyeros	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Bueyeros	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Bueyeros	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harding 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000265 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harding County	All 2 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.