Ciruela, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87752. The Survey maps it on the Optimo quadrangle.

Ciruela within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1892 USGS Watrous quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Watrous quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Optimo quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Roy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Ciruela between 1994 and 2018, burning about 646 acres in total. 19 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ZONE 4
4 August 2012	Natural	60 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GOBBLER
3 August 2012	Natural	1.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CIRUELA
25 August 2012	Natural	350 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NOBODYS LOOKING
16 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LOBO BLANCA
12 August 2003	Natural	55 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
11 August 2000	Natural	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FOREST
4 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MARSH RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ciruela: 4 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mora 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
Optimo	4.5 miles	13
Wagon Mound	7.0 miles	8
Shoemaker	10.0 miles	13
Valmora	11.0 miles	13
Cherry Valley (historical)	11.3 miles	13
Levy	11.6 miles	8
Tiptonville	13.2 miles	13
Watrous	14.2 miles	13

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 Q122559106

The 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 899585. 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.