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Jarosa, 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 near Guardia Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Jarosa quadrangle.

Jarosa within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Jarosa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,175 acres in total. 89 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
Natural89
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestDUNLAP
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSPRUCE
27 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
23 September 2008Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestFLOWER
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHUNTER
17 September 2017Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestCALAVERAS
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPOTATOE
11 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHUNTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Jarosa: 4 prospects, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium, Magnesite, Uranium, 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
Dessieux #3Uranium, CopperPast Producer
Jarossa MineCopper, SilverProspect
Lease PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Erma 1UraniumUnknown
JicarillaMagnesitePast Producer
Joel Taylor GroupMagnesitePast Producer
LolaUraniumUnknown
Coyote MineCopperUnknown
Erma ProspectCopperProspect
Minerals and Chemicals GroupCopperProspect

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
Arroyo del Agua8.0 miles16
Coyote9.1 miles15
Youngsville11.9 miles15
Rio Puerco12.5 miles15
Capulin14.2 miles15
Gallina14.4 miles15
Gallina Plaza15.6 miles15
Lower Cañones16.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122547965The 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 907323. 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.