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Cuates, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clayton North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88418. The Survey maps it on the Cuates School quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cuates within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cuates (historical) between 1996 and 2016, burning about 8,817 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 June 2012Natural1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTO CAMP
9 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPENA
23 April 2006Natural7,750 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFERGUSON
15 April 2016Natural1,065 acresCimarron DistrictARIZONA PASTURE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Guy6.1 miles8
Corrumpa (historical)9.7 miles8
Atencio10.5 miles8
Willow Springs (historical)13.9 miles8
Old Moses14.8 miles9
Moses14.9 miles9
Seneca15.1 miles9
McNees Crossing15.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902044. 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.