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Manuelito, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87319. It lies near Surrender Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Manuelito quadrangle.

Manuelito within McKinley 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Manuelito, New Mexico. Indian "hogans" along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Gallup, New Mexico and Winslow, Arizona
Manuelito, New Mexico. Indian "hogans" along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Gallup, New Mexico and Winslow, Arizona
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Manuelito between 1992 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANUELITO CYN 1
22 September 2000Natural5.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementOAK SPRING
5 August 1994Debris and open burning4.8 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANUELITO2
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementW. OAK SPRINGS
13 August 2012Natural2.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementE. BOWMAN PARK
8 July 1995Debris and open burning30 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANUELITO1
7 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined71 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMANVLITO
6 July 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHAWTHORNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Manuelito: 2 unknowns. 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manuelito in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Flash FloodManuelito$87,000Flash flooding damaged Manuelito Canyon Road and nearby Manuelito Canyon.

Every storm 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
Defiance7.0 miles15
Twin Buttes9.6 miles15
Mentmore10.1 miles15
Chi Chil Tah12.7 miles14
Red Rock12.8 miles15
Allison13.1 miles15
Gallup15.2 miles15
Rock Springs15.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902831. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.