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Adero Az, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Trementina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88431. It lies near Variadero Mesa. The Survey maps it on the La Silla quadrangle.

Adero Az within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Adero Az between 1995 and 2015, burning about 8,511 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2015Debris and open burning294 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRASH FIRE
23 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionQUINTANA
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPABLO LUCERO
18 August 2007Natural100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
7 June 2001Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDATSUN
20 June 2002Natural1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALLEMAND
14 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionQUINTANA
13 March 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,000 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGARITA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Adero Az: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Neafus ClaimsUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Variadero2.4 miles6
New Trementina7.8 miles6
Trementina8.8 miles13
San Rafael9.5 miles6
Corazon (historical)10.0 miles13
Cabra Springs (historical)11.0 miles13
Salitre11.0 miles13
Hooverville12.9 miles6

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122545224The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898511. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.