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Gallina, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Coyote census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87017. The Survey maps it on the Gallina quadrangle. 299 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,585 feet above sea level.

Gallina within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

145 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Gallina between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,203 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 4 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
Natural64
Recreation and ceremony51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestWAYNE
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHIDDEN ROAD
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRUCK
6 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestJOHN
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestEPI
30 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestELMER
30 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestAUSTIN
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Gallina: 6 unknowns, 5 prospects, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Copper, Uranium, Manganese. 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
Besre DepositManganeseProspect
ConquerorSilver, Lead, Uranium, CopperPast Producer
Corral #3 MineVanadium, UraniumPast Producer1955, 1956
Gallina GypsumGypsum-AnhydriteProspect
White Flow #1 MineUranium, Vanadium, CopperPast Producer1954, 1955
Tjbd 1Copper, UraniumUnknown
WhitefloCopper, UraniumProspect
Capulin ProspectCopperUnknown
Gallina ProspectCopperProspect
Corral 1UraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallina in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodGallina-Heavy rains over the Laguna burn scar produced water and debris over a dirt road making it impassable.
September 2007HailGallina-The hail ranged from pea-sized to penny-sized.

Every storm 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
Capulin0.7 miles15
Gallina Plaza1.9 miles15
Arroyo del Agua10.0 miles16
Llaves10.3 miles13
Coyote11.5 miles15
Rio Puerco12.5 miles15
Lindrith13.1 miles14
Youngsville14.2 miles15

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 GallinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4961869The 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 923601. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.