Chato, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Estancia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87061. It lies near Cañon del Chato. The Survey maps it on the Torreon quadrangle.

Chato within Torrance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1917 USGS Estancia quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Torreon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Torreon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Belen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Torreon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Chato between 1992 and 2020, burning about 546 acres in total. 42 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
Natural	42
Recreation and ceremony	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	PARALLEL
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	CAMPFIRE / 253 B
3 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	ANDERSON
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	CONSERVATION
19 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	NUEVO
16 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	SKID
1 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	FAWN
9 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LAGUNESSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Torrance 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
Manzano	1.1 miles	12
Los Chavez	1.4 miles	11
El Gato	2.7 miles	11
Candelaria Place	2.9 miles	12
La Cienega	3.5 miles	11
Punta de Agua	4.0 miles	11
Thunderbird	4.6 miles	11
Torreon	6.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 905044. 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.