This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico. New Mexico has 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), including Raton Pass which is shared with Colorado, and listed by the National Park Service as in that state.
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National Historic LandmarkNational Historic Landmark DistrictNational Historic Site, National Historical Park, National Memorial, or National MonumentDelisted Landmark
Existing NHLs The NHLs are distributed across 22 of New Mexico's 33 counties.
Historic areas of the NPS in New Mexico National Historical Parks, some National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are nine of these in New Mexico. The National Park Service lists these fourteen together with the NHLs in the state.These are listed on p.114 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State", November 2007 version.
Landmark nameImageDate establishedDate of listing as National Historic Site or similar designation, from various sources in articles indexed.Location County Description Aztec Ruins National Monument Aztec San Juan Preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico Bandelier National Monument Santa FeSandoval and Los AlamosIncludes Frijoles Canyon; contains (restored) ruins of dwellings, kivas, rock paintings and petroglyphs Chaco Culture National Historical Park Farmington San Juan and McKinleyDensest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest El Morro National Monument Ramah CibolaSandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base; shaded oasis in the western U.S. deser; Zuni Indians call it "A'ts'ina" (Place of writings on the rock); Anglo-Americans called it "Inscription Rock"; travelers left signatures, names, dates, and stories of their treks Fort Union National Monument Las Vegas, NM MoraPreserves the second of three forts constructed on the site beginning in 1851; also ruins of the third; visible network of ruts from the old Santa Fe Trail Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Silver City CatronCliff dwellings from the 1280s through the early 1300s Pecos National Historical Park Santa Fe Santa Fe and San Miguel Includes parts of Glorieta Pass Battlefield, an NHL, as well as a mission and other areas. Petroglyph National Monument Albuquerque BernalilloVariety of cultural and natural resources including five volcanic cones, hundreds of archeological sites and an estimated 25,000 images carved by native peoples and early Spanish settlers Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Albuquerque Torrance and SocorroReminders of this earliest contact between Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonials: the ruins of four mission churches and the partially excavated pueblo of Las Humanas
See also List of Registered Historic Places in New Mexico List of National Historic Landmarks by state List of National Natural Landmarks in New Mexico
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