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Los Cordovas, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Taos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87571. It stands on Rio Grande del Rancho. The Survey maps it on the Los Cordovas quadrangle.

Los Cordovas within Taos County

On record in Los Cordovas

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Los Cordovas, west of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico. Sheep which belong to Blas Chavez, a Spanish-American rancher
Los Cordovas, west of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico. Sheep which belong to Blas Chavez, a Spanish-American rancher
Collier, John, Jr, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Los Cordovas between 1994 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning11
Natural5
Fireworks4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 August 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyRAMPS
11 August 1995Debris and open burning8.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyTRAILER
9 July 1995Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeBLAKE
8 July 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeQUINTA
7 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeRANCHOS
6 July 1995Smoking1.5 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyDEADDOG
6 July 1994Fireworks5.0 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeCHEAT
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreCimarron DistrictLLANO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Los Cordovas: 5 past producers. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Lower Ranchito1.7 miles11
Ranchito2.4 miles11
Ranchos de Taos2.5 miles10
Llano Quemado3.0 miles10
Taos3.7 miles11
Talpa3.8 miles10
Cañon3.9 miles11
El Prado4.5 miles11

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 Q42206184The 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 928756. 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.