Los LeFebres, 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 near LeFebres Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ocate quadrangle.

Los LeFebres 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.

1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Ocate quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Ocate quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

58 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Los LeFebres between 1993 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 36 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
Natural	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RIMROCK
27 September 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TIGER2
22 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
22 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OCATE MESA
10 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GARCIA
9 July 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STANLEY
8 July 2013	Natural	45 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MONTOSO
6 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BOTTOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Los LeFebres: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Laizy Daisy	Uranium	Unknown
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Los Huerros	2.5 miles	11
Halls Peak (historical)	3.0 miles	11
Ocate	3.9 miles	11
Naranjos	7.4 miles	8
Guadalupita	7.8 miles	10
Los Cocas	8.0 miles	10
Ojo Feliz	9.8 miles	11
Los Cisneros	10.6 miles	10

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 Q122546427

The 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 915860. 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.