La Puente Community Ditch

La Puente Community Ditch
Nearest cityLa Puente, New Mexico
Coordinates36°42′06″N 106°35′52″W / 36.70167°N 106.59778°W / 36.70167; -106.59778
Area9.7 acres (3.9 ha)
Architectural styleIrrigation ditch
MPSLa Tierra Amarilla MRA
NRHP reference No.86002294[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 29, 1986

The La Puente Community Ditch is a 2-mile-long (3.2 km) irrigation ditch which runs through La Puete, New Mexico, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

Description

The ditch distributes water from the 1862-built Parkview Ditch, serving garden plots and 16 field plots. It stretches from a Parkview discharge point located 100 yards (91 m) southwest of the state fish hatchery lake to a point 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of La Puente along the Rio Chama.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: La Puente Community Ditch". National Park Service. Retrieved January 29, 2019. With accompanying photo from 1985