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Los Tanos, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88435. The Survey maps it on the Sunshine Mesa quadrangle.

Los Tanos within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Los Tanos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,366 acres in total. 3 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
Smoking3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROAD
5 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDONEGAN
25 July 2000Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLAGUNAS
17 July 2000Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBILLBOARD
2 June 2011Natural2,000 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHOLLYWOOD
8 April 2009Natural200 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBENT RIM
3 April 2018Smoking140 acresLas Vegas DistrictCORN
21 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBEDFORD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe 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 Tanos: 3 unknowns, 2 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 Pit 62-34-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sandstone TunnelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
Double Mills5.0 miles13
Cuervo7.5 miles6
Santa Rosa8.4 miles7
Agua Negra (historical)11.4 miles7
Puerto De Luna12.0 miles7
Newkirk15.6 miles6
Arabella15.7 miles6
Alamo (historical)17.8 miles6

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 Q122597176The 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 899738. 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.