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Lee Acres, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Bloomfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87401. It lies near Kutz Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Horn Canyon quadrangle. 4,170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,522 feet above sea level.

Lee Acres within San Juan County

Population over time

2 figures

Lee Acres fell from 5,858 to 4,170 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
20105,858
20204,170-1,688 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

100 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Lee Acres between 1997 and 2020, burning about 199 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Natural23
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
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
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeREFINERY
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeSOUTH 5512
15 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionKITTEL
8 August 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGAGE
7 August 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeTRAILER PA
30 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFarmington Field Office146
3 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeBOLLACK
25 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeHAMMON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Lee Acres: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitGold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitGold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitGold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mangum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit 77-15-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
San Juan County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Sullivan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Bloomfield2.9 miles16
Crouch Mesa3.4 miles17
Sullivan7.0 miles16
Flora Vista7.0 miles19
Angustura7.1 miles16
Spencerville8.4 miles19
Totah Vista8.7 miles18
Aztec8.8 miles16

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 Lee AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5972452The 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 901673. 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.