Ojita, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Las Vegas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. The Survey maps it on the Los Montoyas quadrangle.

Ojita within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1890 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Apache Springs quadrangle1:62500
1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Los Montoyas quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Ojita between 1993 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 1 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE UNIT 7
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BLUE RIDGE
14 August 2012	Natural	1.3 acres	Las Vegas District	ALAMITO
6 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	337
4 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	INDEPENDENCE
28 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BLUE-RIDGE
23 July 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Las Vegas District	FUEGO
20 July 1997	Natural	80 acres	Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge	GALLINAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ojita: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sheridan	0.2 miles	14
Cedar Hill	1.2 miles	15
La Manga	1.2 miles	15
Romeroville	1.7 miles	14
Romero	2.8 miles	14
Gabaldon	2.9 miles	15
Santa Ana	3.0 miles	15
Tecolote	3.2 miles	15

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 Q122594834

The 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 899818. 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.