National Register Listing

Elephant Butte Historic District

a.k.a. See Also:Elephant Butte Dam

Roughly, along NM 51 from the Elephant Butte Dam to Mescal Canyon and along NM 52 from Ash Canyon to Long Ridge, Elephant Butte, NM
Local significance of the district:
Landscape Architecture; Entertainment/recreation; Historic - Non-aboriginal; Architecture; Engineering

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.