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Arabella, New Mexico

6 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. The Survey maps it on the Pastura SE quadrangle.

Arabella within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Arabella between 1996 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Vegas District21-40090062X
24 June 2016Natural100 acresLas Vegas DistrictHUGH FIRE
19 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNEGRA
8 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionARABELLA
13 May 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
22 April 2006Natural10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
23 December 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionARABELLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Arabella: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Gold, Lead, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Santa Rosa Gypsum DepositsGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum
Stauber MineCopper, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Pastura MineCopperPast Producer
Stauber MineCopperPast Producer1915

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Agua Negra (historical)4.8 miles7
Santa Rosa7.5 miles7
Puerto De Luna8.9 miles7
San Ignacio9.2 miles6
Pastura10.2 miles6
Vegas Junction13.4 miles6
Borica14.9 miles6
Pintada15.3 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899507. 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.