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La Cueva, New Mexico

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Jemez-Zia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87025. It lies near Wildcat Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Jemez Springs quadrangle. 176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,766 feet above sea level.

La Cueva within Sandoval County

Population over time

2 figures

La Cueva grew from 168 to 176 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010168
2020176+8 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

429 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 429 fires within 5 miles of La Cueva between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,772 acres in total. 153 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony201
Natural153
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSTUMP
9 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National Forest604
6 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestBONCO
5 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHIGHWAY 4
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestJAMES
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestROUND
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSTARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval 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 La Cueva: 6 unknowns, 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Sulphur Bank GroupSulfurPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 64-56-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fenton Hill Gt-1GeothermalProducer
Fenton Hill Gt-2 and Ee-1GeothermalProducer
Murray SpringGeothermalUnknown
Steam WellGeothermalUnknown
Steam WellGeothermalUnknown
Steam WellGeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
Sulphur Springs2.7 miles24
Seven Springs4.1 miles25
Sierra de los Pinos5.2 miles25
Jemez Springs7.7 miles24
O'Neil Landing8.1 miles20
Porter8.5 miles20
Deer Creek Landing11.3 miles18
Bland12.4 miles21

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 Q9018477The 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 902763. 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.