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Los Marias, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87540. The Survey maps it on the Galisteo quadrangle.

Los Marias within Santa Fe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Los Marias between 1994 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
24 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRESTLE
4 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGALISTEO
2 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBADBOY
13 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAMINO
12 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionL-D
5 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBernalillo District20-61700617X
30 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSANCRISTOBAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe 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
Galisteo1.3 miles13
Kennedy2.4 miles13
Spiess3.7 miles13
Chapatalito (historical)5.1 miles13
Lamy5.8 miles13
Eldorado at Santa Fe7.8 miles18
El Dorado8.9 miles18
El Dorado at Santa Fe9.5 miles18

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 Q122562400The 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 898815. 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.