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La Cueva, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87712. It stands on La Canada del Guajalote. The Survey maps it on the Rainsville quadrangle. It stands 7,024 feet above sea level.

La Cueva within Mora County

On record in La Cueva

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

7 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

113 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of La Cueva between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,321 acres in total. 49 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
Natural49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
7 September 2020Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas District21-40470263X
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWIMP
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresLas Vegas District20-40320255X
18 September 2012Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHUNTER
5 August 2013Natural1.5 acresLas Vegas DistrictBUSTOS
30 August 2009Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBUENA VISTA
28 August 2009Natural4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALLSUP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of La Cueva: 9 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Great Western MineMicaPast Producer1949, 1952
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Cueva in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015HailLa Cueva-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mora 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
Canoncito0.9 miles16
Buena Vista1.9 miles15
Puertocito3.3 miles16
Rainsville3.3 miles15
El Alto4.0 miles16
Santa Gertrudis (historical)4.7 miles16
North Carmen4.8 miles16
Mora4.8 miles16

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 La CuevaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28126303The 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 899701. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.