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Los Huerros, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87734. It lies in Los Huerros Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ocate quadrangle.

Los Huerros within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

49 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Los Huerros between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,599 acres in total. 27 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 2019Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas District20-40280241X
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRIMROCK
14 August 2017Natural2.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictELK FIRE
8 July 2013Natural45 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMONTOSO
27 July 2019Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas District20-40120115X
25 July 2019Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas District20-40100111X
25 July 2011Natural20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHAPPY
25 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDOMINIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Los Huerros: 1 unknown. 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, ConstructionUnknown

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
Los LeFebres2.5 miles11
Ocate3.8 miles11
Halls Peak (historical)5.3 miles11
Los Cocas6.1 miles10
Guadalupita6.6 miles10
Naranjos7.2 miles8
Ojo Feliz7.2 miles11
Los Cisneros8.5 miles10

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 Q122588609The 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 915858. 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.