Conchas, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1967. It stands in the Conchas Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88416. It lies near Rattlesnake Island. The Survey maps it on the Tenaja Mesa quadrangle.

Conchas within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Tenaja Mesa quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Conchas between 2000 and 2018, burning about 419 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 June 2017	Natural	56 acres	Las Vegas District	RIVER BOTTOM
30 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	AIRPORT
7 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
25 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GABLE
6 March 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLABBER HILL
5 March 2000	Debris and open burning	175 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BELL
16 March 2018	Smoking	75 acres	Las Vegas District	CUERVO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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 Conchas: 1 unknown. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conchas in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2015	Flash Flood	Conchas	$10,000	Chunks of pavement removed from Big Mesa Road during heavy rainfall. High water was flowing over several portions of the roadway.
May 1995	Hail	Conchas	-	Conchas Lake officials reported nickle- to golf ball-size hail at times covering the ground over two inches deep.
May 1995	Hail	Conchas	-	Conchas Lake officials reported nickle- to golf ball-size hail at times covering the ground over two inches deep.

Every storm recorded in San Miguel 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
Hooverville	0.6 miles	6
La Cinta (historical)	4.9 miles	6
Adero Az	13.3 miles	6
Variadero	13.3 miles	6
San Rafael	15.5 miles	6
San Ramon	16.4 miles	7
New Trementina	16.4 miles	6
Trementina	18.2 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 Q122568869

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 914327. 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.