El Cerrito, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87569. It lies near El CaƱon del Palo Amarillo. The Survey maps it on the Villanueva quadrangle.
On record in El Cerrito
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Village of El Cerrito, Pecos River Valley, El Cerritofederal building survey, 5 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph,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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of El Cerrito between 1994 and 2019, burning about 116 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | VILLANUEVA |
| 7 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | ROMERO |
| 4 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Las Vegas District | VILLANUEVA |
| 9 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | CHICO |
| 25 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ZUNI |
| 16 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BACA |
| 25 June 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | ANTON CHICO |
| 25 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | VIC |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villanueva | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Lovato | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Sena | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| La Fragua | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Garanbuio | 6.1 miles | 15 | |
| Barranco | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Lower Pueblo | 7.2 miles | 15 | |
| Lagunita | 7.3 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915921. 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.








