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El Dorado at Santa Fe, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87508. It lies near Canyon Ancho. The Survey maps it on the Seton Village quadrangle.

El Dorado at Santa Fe within Santa Fe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

83 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of El Dorado at Santa Fe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined48
Natural9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWS FIRE
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division285 FIRE
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSF SOUTHERN
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
28 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOS CABAUOS
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALTEZA
8 July 1999Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHAGEN
5 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreBernalillo District21-60130032X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe 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 El Dorado at Santa Fe: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
San LazarusGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
El Dorado0.7 miles18
Eldorado at Santa Fe2.1 miles18
Sunlit Hills2.8 miles18
Seton Village3.7 miles18
Cañada de los Alamos4.0 miles19
Lamy4.9 miles13
La Loma5.0 miles18
Spiess6.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 914000. 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.