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Mariano Lake, New Mexico

14 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 87311. The Survey maps it on the Mariano Lake quadrangle.

Mariano Lake within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mariano Lake between 1999 and 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPOSE
30 May 1999Natural1.0 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeCHAMISA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley 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 Mariano Lake: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Uranium. 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
Black Jack No. 2 MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1957, 1959, 1964
Blm Mineral Sale MS Nm-016-85-6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mariano Lake MineVanadium, Uranium, IronProducer1975, 1977, 1983
Blackjack #2UraniumPast Producer
Mac No. 1UraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mariano Lake in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
July 2017Flash FloodMariano Lake-Flash flood covering reservation route 49 east of Mariano Lake.

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
North Guam6.7 miles16
Pinedale6.9 miles14
South Guam7.7 miles17
Ciniza8.0 miles17
Iyanbito9.1 miles14
Jamestown9.2 miles17
Coolidge9.3 miles16
Gonzales10.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899751. 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.