Los Medinas, 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 87732. It lies near El Cerro Colorado. The Survey maps it on the Lucero quadrangle.

Los Medinas within Mora County

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.

1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Lucero quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Lucero 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 Medinas between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16,830 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	14
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
7 September 2002	Natural	6.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CHARLIE
30 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LUCERO
3 September 2012	Natural	2.2 acres	Las Vegas District	ROGUE
5 August 2013	Natural	1.5 acres	Las Vegas District	BUSTOS
4 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	COYOTE
31 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LA JARA
28 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	MONTOYA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Los Medinas: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Le Deoux Ranch Lease Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	1885, 1954
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Prospects	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Mine	Copper, Uranium	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Uranium	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Uranium	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Uranium	Occurrence

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
Lucero	1.9 miles	10
Los Cisneros	2.1 miles	10
La Jara	2.1 miles	10
El Turquillo	2.9 miles	12
Rainsville	4.6 miles	15
Los Cocas	4.8 miles	10
Ojo Feliz	5.6 miles	11
El Alto	6.4 miles	16

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 Q122568232

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 899736. 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.