Route 66, State maintained from Iyanbito to Rehobeth

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for McKinley County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Rte. 66, from Iyanbito Interchange at I-40 to State Police Stn. Rehobeth, Rehobeth, 87316
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. structure
Also known as. Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
Census division. Red Rock
National Register reference number. 97001397 - 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Route 66, State maintained from Iyanbito to Rehobeth between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2009	Natural	5.7 acres	Cibola National Forest	FT. WINGATE
12 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	BEAR SPRINGS
18 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	FOX
15 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	WINGATE
4 June 1995	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	WINGATE
21 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bernalillo District	20-61880691X
15 June 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SPRNGSTD-1
15 June 1993	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Route 66, State maintained from Iyanbito to Rehobeth: 15 unknowns, 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Geothermal. 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	Recorded
Fort Wingate Army Depot Well	Geothermal	Unknown
Becenti Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Diamond No. 2 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1952, 1953, 1970
Foutz No. 1 and No. 2 Mines	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1953, 1954
Foutz No. 3 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1953, 1955
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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 McKinley 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fort Wingate Historic District	3.8 miles	1978
	Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory Historic District	4.1 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001397 in Record Group 79.
McKinley County	All 25 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.