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Kiowa Village, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Arroyo Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87564. The Survey maps it on the Arroyo Seco quadrangle.

Kiowa Village within Taos County

On record in Kiowa Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Kiowa Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 2 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
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestCUCHILLA DE MEDIO
22 September 1992Natural1.0 acresCarson National Forestnot named
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson National ForestGARRAPATA
18 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCarson National ForestLATE NIGHT FIRE
10 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestCERRITO COLORADO
10 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestLOBO FIRE
9 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestLOWER HONDO ICF
6 July 2012Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestLAWRENCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 Kiowa Village: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica. 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
GarrapataMicaOccurrence
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Portorico ProspectCopper, CalciumProspect
South Fork MineSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite
Iowa GroupGoldProspect
PicurisGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Lobo (historical)0.5 miles10
San Cristobal2.5 miles9
Cañoncito3.1 miles9
Valdez3.2 miles10
Arroyo Seco4.6 miles10
Arroyo Hondo4.9 miles9
Lama5.0 miles9
Taos Ski Valley7.6 miles10

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 Q122561338The 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 907564. 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.