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Capulin, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Coyote census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87017. The Survey maps it on the Gallina quadrangle.

Capulin within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

150 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Capulin between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,226 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 6 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
Natural63
Recreation and ceremony53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestWAYNE
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHIDDEN ROAD
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRUCK
6 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestJOHN
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestEPI
30 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestELMER
30 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestAUSTIN
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Capulin: 4 unknowns, 4 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Uranium, Copper, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
ConquerorSilver, Lead, Uranium, CopperPast Producer
Corral #3 MineVanadium, UraniumPast Producer1955, 1956
Gallina GypsumGypsum-AnhydriteProspect
Small Fry ProspectFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
White Flow #1 MineUranium, Vanadium, CopperPast Producer1954, 1955
Capulin ProspectCopperUnknown
E and B 1UraniumUnknown
E and B 3UraniumUnknown
Tjbd 1Copper, UraniumUnknown
WhitefloCopper, UraniumProspect

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gallina0.7 miles15
Gallina Plaza2.5 miles15
Arroyo del Agua9.5 miles16
Llaves10.3 miles13
Coyote11.0 miles15
Rio Puerco11.8 miles15
Youngsville13.6 miles15
Lindrith13.6 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q49347683The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 933969. 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.