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El Rito, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Laguna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87026. It stands on Arroyo Conchas. The Survey maps it on the Dough Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,656 feet above sea level.

El Rito within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of El Rito between 1992 and 2017, burning about 394 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
Smoking36
Debris and open burning24
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
6 September 1993Natural1.0 acresLaguna AgencyLABOR
6 September 1993Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyTUNNEL
19 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyFEAST
1 September 2003Smoking1.2 acresLaguna AgencyNORESPONSE
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyDEADMAN'S CURVE
26 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencyRED ROCK
17 August 1993Natural1.0 acresLaguna AgencyDEAD MAN
1 August 2016Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyPIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of El Rito: 8 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, Dimension. 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 Pit 57-77-SLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Materials Pit 57-78-SStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionUnknown
Materials Pit 65-31-SLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Mesita WellGeothermalUnknown
Name Unknown Scoria DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrenceScoria
Unnamed Borrow PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Borrow PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sandy DepositUraniumPast Producer
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Marmon1.2 miles18
Mesita1.5 miles18
Laguna5.1 miles18
New Laguna7.1 miles18
Casa Blanca9.6 miles18
Paraje10.1 miles18
Paguate10.5 miles19
Harrisburg11.3 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on El RitoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19461563The 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 898769. 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.