Lake Valley, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Napi Headquarters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87499. It lies near Rock Point Valley. The Survey maps it on the La Vida Mission quadrangle.

Lake Valley within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1889 USGS Chaco quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Chaco quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS La Vida Mission quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Toadlena quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lake Valley between 1992 and 1998, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
21 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	ASAAYI 1
12 October 1992	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	CRYSTAL-W

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Tsaya

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Valley: 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Tsaya	3.0 miles	17
White Rock	6.0 miles	18
Kimbeto	17.9 miles	14
Nageezi	25.1 miles	15
Naschitti	27.9 miles	18
Sheep Springs	29.5 miles	18
Huerfano	30.8 miles	17
Newcomb	32.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899712. 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.