Golondrinas, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87712. The Survey maps it on the Rainsville quadrangle.

Golondrinas within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1889 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rainsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Golondrinas between 1994 and 2020, burning about 499 acres in total. 30 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
Natural	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2020	Natural	3.0 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40440260X
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Las Vegas District	20-40320255X
18 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HUNTER
4 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GORDEN
30 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BUENA VISTA
28 August 2009	Natural	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ALLSUP
21 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SALMON RANCH
19 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MONTOYA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Golondrinas: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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 Mora 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
Buena Vista	3.7 miles	15
La Cueva	4.9 miles	15
Canoncito	5.8 miles	16
Rainsville	6.3 miles	15
Puertocito	6.4 miles	16
Loma Parda	6.6 miles	14
North Carmen	7.5 miles	16
South Carmen	7.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898324. 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.