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Cuba, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Cuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87013. It stands on Arroyo San Jose. The Survey maps it on the Cuba quadrangle. 628 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,906 feet above sea level.

Cuba within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Cuba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 90 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
Natural90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning9
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestALAMEDA
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLA JARA-2
29 September 2000Natural1.0 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeHWY 44
28 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestJUNCTION
24 September 2004Debris and open burning2.5 acresSanta Fe National ForestHERRERA
21 September 1995Natural10 acresSanta Fe National ForestLUCERO
20 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOUNTY ROAD 13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Cuba: 16 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Uranium, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Butler BrosManganesePast Producer
Eureka Mesa QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Morningstar ProspectGold, CopperProspect1961
Unnamed ProspectCopper, GoldProspect
Nacimiento Copper MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1859, 1971
Nacimiento Mountains DistrictCopper, SilverPast Producer1850, 1880, 1974
Bluebird ClaimUranium, CopperPast Producer
ChalcociteCopper, UraniumPast Producer
CliffCopper, UraniumPast Producer
Copper CityCopper, UraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sandoval County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuba in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Flash FloodCuba$20,000Several apartments were flooded after mud and debris clogged a small arroyo and water overflowed into nearby buildings.
July 2024HailCuba-A cooperative observer near Fenton Lake State Park in the Jemez Mountains observed penny size hail from a strong thunderstorm.
July 2021Flash FloodCuba-A trained spotter near Cuba reported flash flooding due to heavy rainfall. Extent of damages are unknown.
July 2021Flash FloodCuba-A COOP observer near Cuba reported heavy rain that resulted in flash flooding in the area with drainages overflowing along with inundation across fields. No damages are known.
July 2021HailCuba-Multiple observers in Cuba reported nickel to quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm.
May 2015HailCuba-Nickel size hail accumulated around 1 inch deep at Wolf Canyon.
July 2015HailCuba-COOP observer reported up to quarter size hail fell along with over half an inch of rain.
July 2015HailCuba-COOP observer reported pea to penny sized hail along with heavy rains.
September 2013HailCuba-Hail covered NM 197 three to six inches deep.
June 2005HailCuba-An unusually strong storm was reported near mile markers 36 and 40 on Highway 550 between Cuba and San Ysidro.
July 1999Flash FloodCuba-Heavy rain flooded Arroyo Chijuilla and closed Highway 197 southwest of Cuba to near the Johnson Trading Post.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Cuba-Deputies reported a rare tornado over the open mesa west of Cuba.
September 2013HailCuba-no account filed
October 2008HailCuba-no account filed
September 2007HailCuba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sandoval 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
La Placita0.9 miles17
Garrison2.3 miles17
Lagunitas2.6 miles19
Copper City (historical)2.8 miles17
Señorito3.8 miles19
La Jara4.6 miles17
Deer Lake5.6 miles19
San Pablo5.9 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on CubaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q751244The 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 915817. 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.