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Montosa, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1963. It stands in the Trementina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. The Survey maps it on the Cactus Tank quadrangle.

Montosa within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Montosa between 1998 and 2019, burning about 3,807 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2019Natural4.0 acresLas Vegas District20-40310254X
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCONCHAS
29 July 2016Natural1,680 acresLas Vegas DistrictCACTUS FIRE
24 July 2016Natural168 acresLas Vegas DistrictCR 2 FIRE
12 July 2001Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPIERRE
6 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use1,800 acresLas Vegas DistrictCONCHAS RANCH FIRE
24 February 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionENCINAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Montosa: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
East Point, Mesa MontosaUraniumUnknown

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Salitre6.1 miles13
Cabra Springs (historical)7.4 miles13
Chaperito8.9 miles13
Corazon (historical)10.6 miles13
Park Springs11.0 miles13
Alta Vista11.4 miles13
Trujillo12.1 miles13
La Liendre14.8 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 Q122555412The 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 902472. 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.