Dalies, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Belen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87031. The Survey maps it on the Dalies quadrangle.

Dalies within Valencia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1952 USGS Dalies quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Belen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Dalies quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Photographs

1 photograph, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Dalies, New Mexico. Conductor C.W. Tevis picking up a message from a woman operator on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dalies between 2000 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
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
21 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bernalillo District	HACKSAW FIRE
10 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Pueblos Agency	DRAGONFLY
5 July 2016	Natural	1.5 acres	Southern Pueblos Agency	BEAR SPRINGS
27 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LUCKY
2 June 2004	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MILLER
1 June 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
27 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bernalillo District	20-61510562X
17 April 2003	Smoking	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CEMETERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Sandia

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dalies: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 65-28-F	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Materials Pit 65-29 S	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
Sandia	3.9 miles	10
Los Chavez	6.3 miles	10
Los Lunas	7.1 miles	10
Rio Puerco	7.2 miles	9
Tome	7.3 miles	10
Azul	7.6 miles	10
Los Lentes	7.7 miles	10
Paquita	7.8 miles	10

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 Q122550959

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 888183. 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.