Las Vegas Town, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. It lies near The Creston. The Survey maps it on the Ojitos Frios quadrangle.

Las Vegas Town within San Miguel County

On record in Las Vegas Town

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Norman L. King Memorial Stadiumlisted 1999 · 0.8 miles away
Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapellisted 1985 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ojitos Frios quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Ojitos Frios quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

103 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Las Vegas Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 649 acres in total. 32 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Natural	32
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 September 2000	Natural	175 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MOON
8 August 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BARNETT
7 August 2020	Natural	20 acres	Las Vegas District	LA CUEVA CANYON
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PETERSON
30 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	RUIDOSO
29 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OWL
12 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MONTEZUMA
10 August 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40370180X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Las Vegas Town: 11 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Los Vigiles	Uranium	Occurrence
Marquez Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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
Las Vegas	1.7 miles	14
San Antonio	2.0 miles	14
Agua Zarca	2.7 miles	15
East Las Vegas (historical)	2.9 miles	14
El Llano	3.2 miles	16
Arriba	3.3 miles	14
Los Vigiles	3.4 miles	16
Montezuma	3.7 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122561508

The 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 2038785. 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.