Alire, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tierra Amarilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87518. It stands on Arroyo Blanco. The Survey maps it on the Alire quadrangle.

Alire within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1909 USGS Gallina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Alire quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1995 USGS Alire quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Alire between 1993 and 2012, burning about 71 acres in total. 12 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
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NUTRIAS
6 August 1994	Natural	5.0 acres	Carson National Forest	not named
7 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Bandelier National Monument	SWAMP
5 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	BERRY CANYON
26 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	LONG CANYON
22 July 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Carson National Forest	PINON
2 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROSIE
12 July 1993	Natural	55 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Cebolla	6.6 miles	14
Canjilon	7.6 miles	13
Placitas	7.7 miles	13
Las Nutrias	8.1 miles	11
Burns Canyon (historical)	10.7 miles	14
Hopewell (historical)	10.7 miles	14
El Monte Rojo	10.8 miles	12
El Vado	11.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 903090. 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.