Agua Negra, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88435. It stands on Pintada Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rosa quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Agua Negra within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Agua Negra (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,843 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	14
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GUTIERREZ
28 August 2001	Natural	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MOISE
23 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BUZZARD
24 July 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
10 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Las Vegas District	21-40090062X
9 June 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
4 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	EXIT
24 June 2016	Natural	100 acres	Las Vegas District	HUGH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Agua Negra (historical): 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Santa Rosa Gypsum Deposits	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Gypsum
Santa Rosa Railroad Cut	Uranium	Occurrence	1952
Materials 56-47-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-54-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-6-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit F-020-3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Santa Rosa	4.3 miles	7
Arabella	4.8 miles	6
Puerto De Luna	5.0 miles	7
Los Tanos	11.4 miles	6
San Ignacio	13.6 miles	6
Borica	14.2 miles	6
Pastura	14.8 miles	6
Double Mills	15.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920938. 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.