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Llaves, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Coyote census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87046. It lies near Spring Canyon. The Survey maps it on the French Mesa quadrangle. It stands 7,074 feet above sea level.

Llaves within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Llaves between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,752 acres in total. 68 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
Natural68
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCHUPADERO
27 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestJESUS
25 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPABLO
23 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestMOYA
16 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestGURULE
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTREE
1 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestRIO GALLINA
8 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSPRING CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Llaves: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Carbon GroupUraniumOccurrence
Coy ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
El C-BUraniumUnknown
MaxineUraniumUnknown

Every working 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
Burns Canyon (historical)7.8 miles14
Hopewell (historical)7.8 miles14
Gallina Plaza9.8 miles15
Tapicitoes9.8 miles14
Gallina10.3 miles15
Capulin10.3 miles15
Lindrith10.6 miles14
Ojito12.4 miles14

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 LlavesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122560645The 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 908095. 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.