La Cinta, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Conchas Dam census division. It stands on La Cinta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Conchas Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

La Cinta within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Conchas Dam quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of La Cinta (historical) between 1998 and 2017, burning about 4,597 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2

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
21 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CINTA
30 June 2017	Natural	56 acres	Las Vegas District	RIVER BOTTOM
28 May 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	700 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HILL
7 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
25 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GABLE
20 April 2016	Natural	218 acres	Las Vegas District	CLABBER HILL
6 March 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLABBER HILL
5 March 2000	Debris and open burning	175 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of La Cinta (historical): 1 unknown. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	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
Conchas	4.9 miles	6
Hooverville	5.2 miles	6
Campana	17.0 miles	4
Variadero	17.4 miles	6
Adero Az	17.8 miles	6
San Ramon	17.8 miles	7
San Rafael	18.1 miles	6
New Trementina	19.6 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915786. 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.