Largo, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88136. The Survey maps it on the Yeso NW quadrangle.

Largo within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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
1966 USGS Yeso NW quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Largo between 1997 and 2014, burning about 373 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
12 August 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLARKWELL
5 July 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SMITH
24 July 2006	Natural	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
16 July 2009	Natural	290 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROCK LAKE
9 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WEST YESO
18 June 2014	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	AKINS
23 May 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	10 acres	Las Vegas District	CROW
20 May 2006	Natural	2.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Largo: 1 past producer. 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
	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
Buchanan (historical)	4.4 miles	6
Yeso	5.4 miles	6
Evanola	11.7 miles	7
Guadalupe	16.5 miles	7
Ricardo (historical)	17.7 miles	7
Salado	18.6 miles	7
Lake Sumner	21.5 miles	7
Agudo	21.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923493. 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.