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La Constancia, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Los Lunas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87002. The Survey maps it on the Tome quadrangle.

La Constancia within Valencia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

469 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 469 fires within 5 miles of La Constancia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,377 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning230
Missing data/not specified/undetermined167
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionANIMAL
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSKUNK FIRE
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGROOT FIRE
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMANZANO S
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSERAFIN
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALLSUPS
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGIANT
7 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBernalillo District20-60380159X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of La Constancia: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials Pit 66-1-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 64-1-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Tome PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Valencia 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
Azul1.6 miles10
Rio Grande Estates2.0 miles10
Rio Communities2.0 miles10
La Ladera2.4 miles10
Belen2.4 miles10
Los Trujillos2.6 miles10
Adelino2.6 miles10
Bacaville3.5 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 Q122544819The 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 890791. 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.