Alta Vista, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Trementina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. The Survey maps it on the Trujillo quadrangle.

Alta Vista within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1892 USGS Watrous quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Watrous quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Trujillo quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Roy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Alta Vista between 1994 and 2012, burning about 787 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	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
7 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HIKE
3 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	JONES
20 July 2012	Natural	16 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NARANJOS
18 July 2009	Natural	50 acres	Las Vegas District	MAES
10 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RIM ROCK
20 June 2004	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LARGO
2 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CARMEN
19 April 2009	Natural	5.0 acres	Las Vegas District	CORAZON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alta Vista: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Eloy Estrado	Uranium	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Trujillo	2.8 miles	13
Corazon (historical)	9.6 miles	13
Montosa	11.4 miles	13
Trementina	12.3 miles	13
Salitre	13.4 miles	13
New Trementina	14.1 miles	6
San Rafael	15.5 miles	6
Cabra Springs (historical)	15.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 914400. 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.