BlockMangas, New Mexico
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Quemado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87829. It lies near Baca Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mangas quadrangle.
On record in Mangas
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Mangas Mountain Lookout Complexlisted 1988
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Mangas quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Quemado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Mangas between 1993 and 2010, burning about 83 acres in total. 15 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | PIT |
| 8 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | DEER |
| 7 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | GREEN |
| 25 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | PADILLA |
| 22 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | not named |
| 16 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | GABALDON |
| 13 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | not named |
| 9 June 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | VERDE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greens Gap | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Omega | 11.8 miles | 10 | |
| Pie Town | 13.8 miles | 11 | |
| Quemado | 15.9 miles | 10 | |
| Old Horse Springs | 16.8 miles | 12 | |
| New Horse Springs | 17.4 miles | 12 | |
| Tres Lagunas | 19.6 miles | 10 | |
| Gutierrezville | 22.0 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923624. 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.