Arriba, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Las Vegas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. The Survey maps it on the Las Vegas quadrangle.

Arriba within San Miguel 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.

1889 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Arriba between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,692 acres in total. 14 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	46
Natural	14
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
18 September 2000	Natural	175 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MOON
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PETERSON
12 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MONTEZUMA
1 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Las Vegas District	21-40340165X
9 July 2016	Natural	7.0 acres	Las Vegas District	CANADIAN FIRE
6 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PIEDRA
29 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40310151X
29 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GALLEGOS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Arriba: 22 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 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
Conoco-Leatherwood-Reed No 1 Well	Uranium	Occurrence
Los Vigiles	Uranium	Occurrence
Marquez Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
East Las Vegas (historical)	1.8 miles	14
Las Vegas	2.4 miles	14
San Antonio	2.4 miles	14
Las Vegas Town	3.3 miles	15
Los Vigiles	3.8 miles	16
El Llano	4.0 miles	16
Montezuma	4.5 miles	16
Hot Springs	5.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898519. 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.