Angostura, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Peñasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87579. It stands on Rito Angostura. The Survey maps it on the Holman quadrangle.

Angostura within Taos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Holman quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Holman quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Angostura between 1992 and 2018, burning about 80 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 4 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	29
Natural	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PICACHO
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
11 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	SAMUEL
7 August 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LOS ALAMITOS
29 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	AL
24 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LEO
15 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	OCOTE
12 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	MOCHAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Tres Ritos

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 Angostura: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Limestone Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
	Limestone Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Tres Ritos	2.5 miles	11
Sipapu	5.0 miles	11
Las Mochas	6.1 miles	11
Rock Wall	8.8 miles	11
Llano Largo	9.5 miles	11
Rio Pueblo	9.9 miles	11
Rodarte	10.5 miles	11
Llano	10.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 903169. 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.