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Lower Nutria, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Zuni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87327. It lies near Mexican Hill. The Survey maps it on the Upper Nutria quadrangle.

Lower Nutria within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Lower Nutria between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,094 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning81
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyHARVEY 2
9 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyBTC
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreZuni AgencyRAM
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyLOVELETTER
26 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreZuni AgencyCOLLIRE
25 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyWETLAND
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreZuni AgencyRIO NUTRIA
2 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresZuni AgencyHARVEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lower Nutria: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jurgensen PitStoneUnknown
Upper Nutria Limestone PitStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in McKinley 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
Upper Nutria1.3 miles16
Timberlake5.8 miles16
Pinehaven6.8 miles16
Vanderwagen8.8 miles14
Page9.1 miles17
McGaffey9.1 miles16
Ramah10.0 miles16
Pescado10.4 miles14

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 Q122541168The 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 908281. 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.