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Las Tablas, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Vallecitos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87554. It stands on CaƱada del Agua. The Survey maps it on the Las Tablas quadrangle.

Las Tablas within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Las Tablas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,562 acres in total. 70 started naturally. 1 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
Natural70
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestROAD TANK
25 September 2006Natural1.5 acresCarson National ForestBURMA
24 September 1993Naturalunder an acreCarson National Forestnot named
1 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestORTIZ
6 August 2013Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestGRANT FIRE
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestPETACA
5 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestARCHULETA
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestSLASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 141 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 141 workings within 5 miles of Las Tablas: 60 past producers, 57 prospects, 14 occurrences, 7 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Kyanite. 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
Apache No. 2 MineMica, Bismuth, Beryllium, Uranium, Thorium, REEPast Producer1880, 1900, 1965
Buena Vista DepositMica, Feldspar, Uranium, Thorium, REEPast Producer1935, 1939
Coates TunnelNiobium (Columbium), MicaPast Producer
El CaminoMica, BerylliumProspect
El ContentoBeryllium, Feldspar, MicaProspect
FridlundREE, Bismuth, Niobium (Columbium), MicaPast Producer
Fridlund MineMica, Niobium (Columbium), Uranium, Thorium, REEPast Producer1920, 1950, 1958
Green Peak DepositMica, Copper, UraniumOccurrence1885
Green Peak MineCopper, MicaProspect
KaiwaBeryllium, REE, Copper, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Las Tablas in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015HailLas Tablas-Golf ball size hail fell along highway 285 south of Tres Piedras.

Every storm 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
Petaca3.4 miles12
South Petaca4.1 miles12
Vallecitos6.2 miles12
Ancones9.3 miles12
La Madera11.7 miles12
La Cueva (historical)13.0 miles12
El Rito16.9 miles11
Las Placitas17.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 907880. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.