La Lande, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88119. The Survey maps it on the Fort Sumner East quadrangle.

La Lande within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Fort Sumner East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of La Lande between 1993 and 2014, burning about 2,006 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
6 August 2000	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LALAND
15 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PETTERSON
15 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GRANDE#1
26 June 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BUCKEYE
21 June 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BALLARD
2 June 2011	Natural	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	KILLOUGH
20 May 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LALANDE
24 March 2011	Smoking	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MESQUITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Fort Sumner

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of La Lande: 2 past producers. None of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	State Pit 67-5-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in De Baca 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fort Sumner	6.1 miles	7
Taiban	6.6 miles	7
Agudo	9.5 miles	7
Ricardo (historical)	13.9 miles	7
Canton (historical)	16.9 miles	7
Guadalupe	17.0 miles	7
Salado	17.6 miles	7
Lake Sumner	17.6 miles	7

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 Q122568760

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 898807. 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.