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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.

El Cerrito within San Miguel County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

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.

Village of El Cerrito, Pecos River Valley, El Cerrito, San Miguel County, NM
Village of El Cerrito, Pecos River Valley, El Cerrito, San Miguel County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

20 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined11
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVILLANUEVA
7 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestROMERO
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictVILLANUEVA
9 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCHICO
25 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionZUNI
16 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBACA
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestANTON CHICO
25 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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
Villanueva2.7 miles15
Lovato4.3 miles15
Sena4.6 miles15
La Fragua5.7 miles15
Garanbuio6.1 miles15
Barranco6.4 miles15
Lower Pueblo7.2 miles15
Lagunita7.3 miles14

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.