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Frijoles Spring, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Rio Chama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87537. The Survey maps it on the Abiquiu quadrangle.

Frijoles Spring within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Frijoles Spring between 1993 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestBOLSER
19 August 2002Natural4.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestSCRUB
19 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestDAWN
18 August 1996Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestOJITO
1 August 2016Natural700 acresSanta Fe National ForestCUERNO
31 July 1993Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
31 July 1993Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
21 July 2014Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPELON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba 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 Frijoles Spring: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Lily BelleCopperProspect
White DepositGold, SilverPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Barranca3.2 miles14
Buena Vista3.3 miles14
La Careda3.8 miles14
El Curuco4.0 miles14
Cañones4.1 miles15
Abiquiu4.2 miles14
Lower Cañones5.0 miles15
Vallecitos Corrales6.6 miles14

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 Q122543265The 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 906411. 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.