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Cerro, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Questa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87519. It stands on CaƱada Pinabete. The Survey maps it on the Cerro quadrangle. It stands 7,461 feet above sea level.

Cerro within Taos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Cerro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 1 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
Natural22
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
30 September 2012Naturalunder an acreTaos Field OfficeGUADALUPE
6 August 2018Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestRITO PRIMERO
6 August 2001Natural1.0 acresCarson National ForestPINABETE
22 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCimarron DistrictGRAVEL PIT
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.9 acresCimarron DistrictNORTH KIOWA BOSQUE
11 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestPINABETE
10 August 2002Naturalunder an acreTaos Field OfficeWRRA 1
9 July 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresCimarron District20-20090043X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Cerro: 4 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Perlite, Graphite. 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
Lower Cabresto CanyonCopperProspect
Revelation Manganese DepositSilver, ManganeseOccurrence
Williams' ClaimsMolybdenumOccurrence
Esperanza ClaimGraphiteProspect
Sawmill Canyon ProspectGraphiteOccurrence
Silbrico MinePerliteProducer
Silbrico PlantPerliteProducer
Black PointManganeseOccurrence
Pinabete CanyonManganeseProspect1958
Red RiverManganeseProspect1943

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Buena Vista2.1 miles9
Questa3.6 miles9
El Rito4.0 miles9
Sunshine6.4 miles9
Sunshine Valley6.5 miles9
Lama7.2 miles9
Moly7.5 miles10
San Cristobal11.0 miles9

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 CerroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17003033The 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 904926. 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.