Los Alamos, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Las Vegas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87745. The Survey maps it on the Las Vegas NW quadrangle.

Los Alamos within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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
1963 USGS Las Vegas NW quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Los Alamos between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,468 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	5
Smoking	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
23 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HWY 518
24 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROBBINS
21 August 2013	Natural	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	APACHE
12 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge	VEGOSA
6 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ALAMITOS
3 July 2003	Smoking	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COUNTY LINE
18 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SOLA VACA
14 June 2018	Natural	6.5 acres	Las Vegas District	ALLEN RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Los Alamos: 9 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
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
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
Emplazado	2.1 miles	14
Onava	3.9 miles	15
Kroenigs	6.0 miles	15
Sapello	6.1 miles	16
Las Tusas	7.3 miles	16
Arriba	7.9 miles	14
Los Vigiles	8.2 miles	16
Manuelitas	8.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915856. 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.