Route 66, State maintained from Milan to Continental Divid

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Cibola County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure.

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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Along Rte. 66, W of Milan to Continental Divide, Continental Divide, 87312
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. structure
Also known as. Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
National Register reference number. 97001394 - 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Route 66, State maintained from Milan to Continental Divid between 1999 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 5 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Bernalillo District	SINGLE TREE
19 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	PINON
15 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Bernalillo District	20-60170073X
16 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	MARAPAGE RANCH
15 June 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BIACONTDIV
12 May 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	RADAR

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Route 66, State maintained from Milan to Continental Divid: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Red Cap Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Cibola 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 97001394 in Record Group 79.
Cibola County	All 11 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.