BlockLa Fragua, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87560. It lies near Arroyo Vegoso. The Survey maps it on the Sena quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Sena quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Sena quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of La Fragua between 1994 and 2020, burning about 145 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 | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Las Vegas District | LA PALOMA |
| 24 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | 296 |
| 23 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GONZALES |
| 21 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FA #5 |
| 16 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BACA |
| 10 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PUEBLO |
| 25 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | VIC |
| 21 June 2003 | Natural | 50 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SARGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garanbuio | 0.4 miles | 15 | |
| Barranco | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Sena | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Lower Pueblo | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Upper Pueblo | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lovato | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Coruco | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Villanueva | 4.1 miles | 15 |
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 Q122550342 | The 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 907643. 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.