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La Puente, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Tierra Amarilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87575. The Survey maps it on the Tierra Amarilla quadrangle. It stands 7,264 feet above sea level.

La Puente within Rio Arriba County

On record in La Puente

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of La Puente between 1992 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 41 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/undetermined54
Natural41
Debris and open burning21
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
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
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreChama DistrictHERON
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTINA
18 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVALDEZ FIRE
1 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVISITOR
9 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJUNCTION
7 August 2013Naturalunder an acreChama DistrictPLAZA
7 August 2001Naturalunder an acreJicarilla AgencyNEAR MISS
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGOTIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of La Puente: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
B - 01294 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lower BrazosSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit No. 65-64-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 70-15-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Rutheron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Rutheron1.4 miles12
Los Ojos2.6 miles12
Tierra Amarilla2.7 miles12
Ensenada4.0 miles12
Brazos4.1 miles14
Las Nutrias9.2 miles11
El Vado10.0 miles12
Cebolla12.7 miles14

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 PuenteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q136466249The 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 899709. 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.