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Los Cisneros, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87722. It stands on La Canada del Carro. The Survey maps it on the Lucero quadrangle.

Los Cisneros within Mora County

On record in Los Cisneros

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

71 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Los Cisneros between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16,310 acres in total. 43 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
Natural43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 2002Natural6.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHARLIE
7 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWINDY
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLUCERO
3 September 2012Natural2.2 acresLas Vegas DistrictROGUE
4 August 2016Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictCOYOTE
31 August 2009Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLA JARA
30 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBIGRED
28 August 2011Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictMONTOYA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Los Cisneros: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Uranium, Copper. 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
John Hays MineCopper, Silver, UraniumPast Producer1885, 1917
Le Deoux Ranch Lease MineUranium, Vanadium, CopperPast Producer1885, 1954
Unnamed ProspectsUranium, CopperOccurrence
Unnamed MineCopper, UraniumProspect
Unnamed ProspectCopper, UraniumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, UraniumProspect
Unnamed ProspectCopper, UraniumOccurrence
John Hays MineCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mora 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
El Turquillo1.2 miles12
Los Medinas2.1 miles10
Los Cocas2.8 miles10
La Jara3.0 miles10
Lucero3.9 miles10
Guadalupita4.4 miles10
Ojo Feliz6.0 miles11
Rainsville6.6 miles15

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 Q122569025The 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 915857. 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.