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One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Variadero Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. NM 104 over Rio Conchas, Variadero, 88421
- When was it listed? July 1997
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Highway Bridges of New Mexico MPS
- Census division. Trementina
- National Register reference number. 97000736 - 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
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Variadero Bridge between 1995 and 2016, burning about 9,801 acres in total. 7 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 | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | QUINTANA |
| 13 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PABLO LUCERO |
| 18 August 2007 | Natural | 100 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 10 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MM46 |
| 22 July 2016 | Natural | 1,300 acres | Las Vegas District | CORAZON PEAK |
| 2 July 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MESITA |
| 8 June 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HOTSY |
| 7 June 2001 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DATSUN |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Variadero Bridge: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Variadero, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Hail | Variadero | - | A trained spotter 9 miles southeast of Variadero observed 2 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Variadero | - | Heavy rain southwest of Conchas resulted in flash flooding along New Mexico State Road 104. No damages were known. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Variadero | - | A cone funnel was spotted north of Santa Rosa Lake State Park for about 15 minutes. |
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 97000736 in Record Group 79. |
| San Miguel County | All 104 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.