Quarters Number 1

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 56 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 228 Sheridan Rd., Fort Bliss, 79906
When was it listed? April 1987
Category. building
Census division. El Paso North Central
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 87000484 - 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Quarters Number 1 in 2000, burning under an acre in total. None 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
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
13 January 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Chamizal National Monument	BERMUDA

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Quarters Number 1: 7 producers, 3 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. 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
(Facility) El Paso Copper Smelter	Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid	Plant
(Facility) El Paso Lead Smelter	Lead, Smelter, Cadmium, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid, Zinc	Plant
El Paso Quarry & Plant	Silica	Producer
El Paso Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer
(Facility) El Paso Refinery	Copper	Plant
Edgar Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Vowell Construction Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
McKelligon Canyon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Southwestern Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Limestone, Rhyolite

Every working recorded in El Paso 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fort Bliss Main Post Historic District	0.3 miles	1998
Fort Bliss National Cemetery	1.3 miles	2016
Mesa Pump Plant	1.5 miles	2009
Manhattan Heights Historic District	1.7 miles	1980
Ray Sherman Place	3.0 miles	2019
Tays Place	3.1 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000484 in Record Group 79.
El Paso County	All 56 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.