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No Agua, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tres Piedras census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87577. It lies near Martinez Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tres Piedras quadrangle. It stands 8,179 feet above sea level.

No Agua within Taos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of No Agua between 1996 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 4 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
Natural30
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
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
8 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestPIEDRAS
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCarson National ForestBONE YARD
22 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestSNAG
27 August 2001Natural10 acresCarson National ForestLAMY
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson National ForestGOLF
16 August 2012Natural173 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSE CERRO DE A
13 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestSALT
11 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestDEER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of No Agua: 9 producers, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Perlite, 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit No. 58-79-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 58-81-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
El Grande MinePerliteProducer1948, 1958
El Grande MinePerliteProducer
Grefco No Agua PlantPerliteProducer
Johns-Manville Mine 1959PerliteProducer1948, 1951
Johns-Manville Mine and PlantPerliteProducer
No Agua MinePerliteProducer
No Agua Mine GrefcoPerliteProducer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Tres Piedras5.1 miles9
Servilleta11.7 miles9
Sunshine Valley18.4 miles9
Cerro19.0 miles9
Lama19.2 miles9
Sunshine19.4 miles9
San Cristobal19.5 miles9
Buena Vista19.8 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on No AguaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7043957The 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 909094. 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.