Natural Bridges National Monument Visitor Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Natural Bridges Entrance Rd. / UT 275, Natural Bridges NM, 84533
When was it listed? August 2023
Category. building
Also known as. National Park Service Mission 66 Era Resources MPS
Census division. Blanding
National Register reference number. 100009283 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Natural Bridges National Monument Visitor Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 55 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	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	BURCH
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	GRANDFLAT
6 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Natural Bridges National Monument	NATURAL BRIDGE
6 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Natural Bridges National Monument	KACHINA
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	MP96
4 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	BULL
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	CRYPTOWASH
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	MAVERICKPT

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Natural Bridges National Monument Visitor Center: 23 past producers, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Copper, Copper, Uranium, Copper. 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
Hideout Mine	Uranium, Copper, Vanadium	Past Producer	1948, 1949
Sandy No. 2 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	Malachite, Uraninite
Sandy No. 3 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Zebra No. 1 Prospect	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence
Able-Sam Hill	Copper, Uranium	Unknown
Baker	Copper, Uranium	Unknown
Big Red & Big Red 2	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer	Underground
Camel	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer	Underground
Hideout Mine	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer	Underground
Sandy 3 Mine	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer	Underground

Every working recorded in San Juan 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

1 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
	Owachomo Bridge Trail	2.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009283 in Record Group 79.
San Juan County	All 23 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.