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La Cueva, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87535. The Survey maps it on the Pecos quadrangle.

La Cueva within Santa Fe 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.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of La Cueva between 1992 and 2020, burning about 295 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 5 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
Natural68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHAGEN
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestGLORIETA CREEK
18 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLISBOA
8 August 2011Natural2.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestGULCH
8 August 2003Natural16 acresSanta Fe National ForestPOSADA
8 August 1994Naturalunder an acrePecos National Historical ParkSTRIKETWO
7 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestORTIGA
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestALAMITOS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of La Cueva: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. 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
Fairview Lode MineCopper, SilverOccurrence1910
KunklinCopperProspect
Paytiamo DepositCopperOccurrence1942
PaytianoCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
Glorieta2.0 miles19
Cañada de los Alamos6.8 miles19
El Dorado at Santa Fe9.8 miles18
Sunlit Hills10.1 miles18
El Dorado10.3 miles18
Seton Village10.6 miles18
La Loma10.6 miles18
Lamy10.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 907631. 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.