Lovato, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87560. It lies near Gonzales Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Sena quadrangle.

Lovato within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1890 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:62500
1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Sena quadrangle1:24000
2002 USGS Sena quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Lovato between 1994 and 2020, burning about 194 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/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	4
Other causes	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
9 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	LA PALOMA
28 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VILLANUEVA
4 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	VILLANUEVA
21 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FA #5
16 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BACA
10 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PUEBLO
25 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VIC
23 June 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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
Sena	0.8 miles	15
La Fragua	2.1 miles	15
Villanueva	2.2 miles	15
Garanbuio	2.3 miles	15
Barranco	2.8 miles	15
Lower Pueblo	3.4 miles	15
Upper Pueblo	3.8 miles	15
El Cerrito	4.3 miles	15

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 Q122594832

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 908258. 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.