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Las Maravillas, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Los Lunas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87031. The Survey maps it on the Tome quadrangle. 1,604 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Las Maravillas within Valencia County

Population over time

2 figures

Las Maravillas fell from 1,628 to 1,604 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,628
20201,604-24 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

281 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Las Maravillas between 1993 and 2020, burning about 992 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 were 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 burning162
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
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
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSKUNK FIRE
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionAFS FIRE
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo District20-60460253X
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGROOT FIRE
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMANZANO S
20 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBernalillo District20-60400190X
20 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMBP FIRE
14 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreBernalillo District21-60560196X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Las Maravillas: 6 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Tome' WellGeothermalUnknown
El Cerro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit 56-10-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 57-133-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 72-8-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 73-1-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Nino's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orona Pit & CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Screening PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Valencia 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
Rio del Oro1.1 miles10
Pasitos del Cielo1.5 miles10
Monterey Park2.1 miles10
El Cerro2.4 miles10
Mission Park2.7 miles10
La Ladera3.2 miles10
Tome3.2 miles10
Adelino3.7 miles10

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 Las MaravillasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5970548The 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 2413646. 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.