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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Quay County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Route 66, State maintained from Montoya to Cuervo
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The listing
- Address. Along Rte. 66, from W of Montoya to Cuervo, Cuervo, 88417
- When was it listed? November 1997
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
- National Register reference number. 97001395 - 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
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Route 66, State maintained from Montoya to Cuervo between 2000 and 2019, burning about 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Las Vegas District | 20-40330256X |
| 26 August 2002 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FENCE |
| 15 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MONTOYA |
| 15 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MANDY |
| 2 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FRONTAGE |
| 10 May 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SUNFLOWER |
| 18 April 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DISTANCE |
| 4 January 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DANIEL |
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 Route 66, State maintained from Montoya to Cuervo: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 97001395 in Record Group 79. |
| Quay County | All 13 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.