Embudo, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the South Rio Arriba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87549. It lies near Black Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Velarde quadrangle. It stands 5,814 feet above sea level.

Embudo within Rio Arriba County

On record in Embudo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Embudo Historic Districtlisted 1979

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Velarde quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Velarde quadrangle1:24000

Photographs

1 photograph, 1943

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.

Embudo, New Mexico. Obstetrical case after arriving safely in the Taos County cooperative health association ambulance at the Embudo Presbyterian Hospital
Collier, John, Jr, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Embudo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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	15
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 August 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VIGIL
3 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	EMBUDO II
3 July 2005	Fireworks	2.6 acres	Taos Field Office	GASOLINEAL
3 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Albuquerque District Office	CACTUS
24 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	COUNTYLINE
20 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	BOLS
2 July 1997	Fireworks	under an acre	Albuquerque District Office	RINCONADA
2 July 1997	Fireworks	3.5 acres	Albuquerque District Office	LA BOLSA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Embudo: 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Bismuth. 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
Goat's Point Prospect	Bismuth	Prospect
Lyden Bentonite Deposit	Bentonite	Unknown
Materials Pit No. 73-18-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Sebastian - Martin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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
La Cienaga	2.0 miles	11
La Junta	2.4 miles	11
La Bolsa	3.0 miles	11
Velarde	3.4 miles	11
Canova	3.6 miles	11
Dixon	3.9 miles	11
Rinconada	4.7 miles	12
Lyden	4.8 miles	13

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 Embudo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5370269	The 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 915823. 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.