Built in 1919 (Pueblo Revival Style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“The Aztec Ruins Visitor Center, also known as the Aztec Ruins Administration Building/Museum, by the main entrance to the Aztec Ruins National Monument, on the outskirts of Aztec, New Mexico, was built in 1919. It is located approximately 0.75 miles north of U.S.”
Wikipedia article Aztec Ruins Administration Building-Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1919, Pueblo Revival Style architecture, by Earl Halstead Morris.
Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture
Architect. Earl Halstead Morris
National Register reference number.96001041- 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
68 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Aztec Ruins Administration Building-Museum
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 2 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
Natural
30
Debris and open burning
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Arson/incendiarism
2
Smoking
1
Recreation and ceremony
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Aztec Ruins Administration Building-Museum: 4 unknowns, 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Aztec, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
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.
The Blanco Arroyo overflowed its banks and, combined with heavy rain across the area, led to significant flash flooding. Firefighters rescued a few individuals from the roofs of their homes, otherwise no major injuries or fatalities were reported. Several homes were reportedly shifted off their foundation and a propane tank at one of those homes was swept away in the flood waters. Multiple classrooms were damaged at three area schools, causing all schools to be closed on the 27th and one school, Lydia Rippey Elementary, to be closed on the 28th. The Aztec Municipal Golf Course at Hidden Valley was closed until further notice due to damages incurred from the flooding. A large rock slide closed Navajo Road 36 at mile marker 28, with other smaller road closures reported around Aztec. Measured rainfall in the area ranges from an inch to a little over an inch and a half.
Damaging winds caused multiple trees to fall over, landing on houses and power lines. This caused power outages for portions of Aztec, Flora Vista, and Crouch Mesa.
Three to 6 inches of mud and debris covered parts of Highway 550 in Aztec following heavy rain of 1 to 2 inches on the mesa above town near the airport. Several other city streets were temporarily closed by the runoff.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 251 issues,
1,032 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
6 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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