El Alto, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87732. It stands on Cañada de la Tierra Blanco. The Survey maps it on the Mora quadrangle.

El Alto within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1889 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mora quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

101 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of El Alto between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,151 acres in total. 39 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
Natural	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
7 September 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40470263X
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WIMP
5 August 2013	Natural	1.5 acres	Las Vegas District	BUSTOS
30 August 2005	Natural	3.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
22 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROMO
21 August 2013	Natural	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROMERO
20 August 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of El Alto: 6 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Beryllium. 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	Recorded
Great Western Mine	Mica	Past Producer	1949, 1952
Mora Beryl Prospect	Beryllium	Occurrence
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mora 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
Mora	1.2 miles	16
Santa Gertrudis (historical)	1.7 miles	16
Cordillera	2.7 miles	16
Canoncito	3.2 miles	16
Cleveland	3.5 miles	16
Abuelo	3.6 miles	16
La Cueva	4.0 miles	15
Cañon	4.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 906028. 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.