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Cebolla, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tierra Amarilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87518. It stands on CaƱada de Bano. The Survey maps it on the Cebolla quadrangle. It stands 7,641 feet above sea level.

Cebolla within Rio Arriba County

On record in Cebolla

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Cebolla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 2 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
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
19 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLUNA
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNUTRIAS
7 August 2007Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestTERRO CREEK
6 August 2018Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestBIG SNAG
4 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCEBOLLA COMP
19 August 2014Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestRITO DEL MEDIO
6 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWEEWEE
3 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSANCHEZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cebolla: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cebolla in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996LightningCebolla$50,000no account filed
June 2023Funnel CloudCebolla-A trained spotter shared a photo of a funnel cloud that formed along U.S. Highway 84 near Cebolla.

Every storm 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
Las Nutrias3.5 miles11
Canjilon4.8 miles13
Alire6.6 miles14
Placitas6.8 miles13
Tierra Amarilla11.7 miles12
La Puente12.7 miles12
Ensenada13.3 miles12
El Vado13.4 miles12

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 CebollaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19460897The 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 923578. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.