Ilfeld, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87565. It lies near Cerrito Amarillo. The Survey maps it on the North San Ysidro quadrangle. It stands 6,532 feet above sea level.

Ilfeld within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1894 USGS Lamy quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS North San Ysidro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS North San Ysidro quadrangle1:24000

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Charles Ilfeld Building, 224 North Plaza, Las Vegas, San Miguel County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Ilfeld between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,551 acres in total. 25 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
Natural	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
6 September 2020	Natural	4.6 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	GRANDE
15 September 2009	Natural	23 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	ORTIZ
12 September 2017	Natural	1,034 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	PALMER
4 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	not named
3 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	MESA
9 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	BEGOSO
8 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	EAST RIM
5 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	MESA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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 Ilfeld: 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 San Miguel 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
South San Ysidro	2.2 miles	14
North San Ysidro	3.3 miles	14
Gise	3.4 miles	14
Soham	3.5 miles	15
Sands	3.7 miles	15
San Jose	4.7 miles	15
Lucero	5.6 miles	15
El Ancon	5.7 miles	15

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 Ilfeld	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19462469	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 915844. 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.