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Casa Blanca, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Laguna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87007. It lies near East Paraje Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Laguna quadrangle. It stands 5,909 feet above sea level.

Casa Blanca within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Casa Blanca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 882 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning77
Smoking41
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySEMI
29 September 2000Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyOLD LADY
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencyTRUCKER
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyINTERSTATE
8 August 2003Smokingunder an acreLaguna AgencyGARAGE
29 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLaguna AgencyMIDNIGHT
29 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHINGLE
27 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencyRIFLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Casa Blanca: 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Uranium. 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
Bentonite DepositBentoniteUnknown
ParajeUraniumUnknown
Laguna Pueblo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit 59-2-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-35-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 62-30-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Paraje0.7 miles18
Harrisburg1.7 miles18
Philadelphia2.2 miles18
New Laguna2.6 miles18
Seama2.9 miles18
New York3.1 miles18
Budville3.3 miles18
Cubero3.7 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on Casa BlancaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705953The 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 899561. 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.