Correo, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Belen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87026. The Survey maps it on the Correo quadrangle.

Correo within Valencia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Cerro Verde quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS South Garcia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Acoma Pueblo quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Correo quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Correo between 1993 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 4 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
Smoking	24
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
18 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Agency	MULCH
27 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Laguna Agency	COYOTE
1 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TRAIL
5 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JAGUAR
25 July 1996	Natural	4.0 acres	Laguna Agency	EIDSON
24 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bernalillo District	20-60250107X
2 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Laguna Agency	CAR
19 July 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Laguna Agency	BUTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Suwanee

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Correo: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Unnamed Uranium Deposits	Uranium	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-124-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-65-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-79-S	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-148-F	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Materials Pit 57-80-F	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown

Every working recorded in Valencia 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
Suwanee	2.9 miles	10
South Garcia	7.5 miles	11
Rio Puerco	15.1 miles	9
Sandia	20.4 miles	10
Dalies	21.3 miles	10
Paquita	22.5 miles	10
Los Lentes	25.6 miles	10
Los Lunas	26.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923586. 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.