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Photograph of Pecos River Bridge
Photograph by Landon Sutherland, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pecos River Bridge at Terrero

Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure · built in 1921.

Sources: 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NM 63 over Pecos R., Terrero, 87573
  • When was it listed? July 1997
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Highway Bridges of New Mexico MPS
  • Census division. Pecos
  • When was it built? 1921
  • National Register reference number. 97000739 - 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Pecos River Bridge at Terrero between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,436 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 6 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
Natural61
Recreation and ceremony39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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 2002Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestWILLOW
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRACT
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLINK
4 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
1 September 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestRIDGE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLINKS
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRACK
4 August 1992Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pecos River Bridge at Terrero: 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Bismuth. 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
Eugene R. Long PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Jones MineCopper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, LeadOccurrence1899
Pecos MineZinc, Lead, BismuthOccurrenceReplacement
Pecos MineZinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Willow Creek District-New MexicoZinc, Lead, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Jones MineCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000739 in Record Group 79.
San Miguel CountyAll 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.