Estancia Ranchettes, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Estancia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87035. The Survey maps it on the Lobo Hill quadrangle.

Estancia Ranchettes within Torrance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Lobo Hill quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Lobo Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Estancia Ranchettes between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,367 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	32
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
29 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BURL
13 August 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Bernalillo District	21-60590203X
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Bernalillo District	21-60510185X
11 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LIGHTNING 2
5 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bernalillo District	20-60060031X
5 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SCHULTZIE
3 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Bernalillo District	21-60090022X
25 July 2016	Natural	100 acres	Bernalillo District	ANSLEY YUCCA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Moriarty

Every fire recorded in Torrance County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Estancia Ranchettes: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Hagerman Pit	Stone	Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Torrance 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
Moriarty	6.9 miles	10
Otto	7.3 miles	17
McIntosh	11.4 miles	10
Witt	12.8 miles	10
Gallegos	12.9 miles	19
Clines Corners	13.2 miles	12
Antelope Springs	13.7 miles	10
Martinez	14.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122559206

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 925164. 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.