La Puente Community Ditch
Appearance
La Puente Community Ditch | |
Nearest city | La Puente, New Mexico |
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Coordinates | 36°42′06″N 106°35′52″W / 36.70167°N 106.59778°W |
Area | 9.7 acres (3.9 ha) |
Architectural style | Irrigation ditch |
MPS | La Tierra Amarilla MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 86002294[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 29, 1986 |
The La Puente Community Ditch, through La Puente, New Mexico, is a 2 miles (3.2 km) long irrigation ditch which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
It distributes water from the 1862-built Parkview Ditch, serving garden plots and 16 field plots. It extends from a Parkview discharge point, 100 yards (91 m) southwest of the state fish hatchery lake, to 0.7 miles southwest of La Puente on the Chama River.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: La Puente Community Ditch". National Park Service. Retrieved January 29, 2019. With accompanying photo from 1985