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LaVentana, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Cuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87013. The Survey maps it on the La Ventana quadrangle.

LaVentana within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of LaVentana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
7 August 2010Natural10 acresSanta Fe National ForestBOUNDARY
27 August 2015Naturalunder an acreRio Puerco Field OfficePINOS
25 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySEMILLA
14 August 1996Naturalunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeTREE
11 August 1992Naturalunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeISKRA
10 August 2018Naturalunder an acreRio Puerco Field OfficeMM52
10 August 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestMM 52
9 July 2018Naturalunder an acreRio Puerco Field OfficePIEDRA LUMBRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of LaVentana: 10 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Vanadium, Uranium. 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
Butler Brothers MineVanadium, UraniumPast Producer1954, 1955, 1959
Peacock Nos 1 & 2Gold, SilverPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kolosa Placer ClaimCopperPast Producer
Pit Number 61-34-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 65-43-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
SunnyslopeCopperPast Producer
Warm SpringsCopperPast Producer
Cuba 13 ProspectUraniumOccurrence
De Dos Gordos ProspectUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
San Miguel6.7 miles19
San Pablo8.7 miles19
O'Neil Landing9.7 miles20
Porter9.8 miles20
San Luis10.8 miles19
Señorito10.8 miles19
Lagunitas11.4 miles19
Deer Creek Landing11.9 miles18

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 Q122547721The 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 907733. 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.