BlockLeon, New Mexico
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Crownpoint census division. It stands on South Fork Arroyo Leon. The Survey maps it on the El Dado quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1883 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1886 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1899 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS El Dado quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1977 USGS Chaco Mesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Leon in 1995, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 April 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Laguna Agency | HEATER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Dado | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| Piedra de la Aguila | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Hospah | 13.7 miles | 18 | |
| Ambrosia Lake | 15.8 miles | 20 | |
| Eagle Nest | 17.2 miles | 19 | |
| Whitehorse | 18.3 miles | 18 | |
| Borrego Pass | 21.5 miles | 14 | |
| Seven Lakes | 23.1 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898812. 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.