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Ojitos Frios, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. It stands on Ojitos Frios Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ojitos Frios quadrangle.

Ojitos Frios within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Ojitos Frios between 1992 and 2020, burning about 242 acres in total. 31 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
Natural31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas District20-40250234X
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionENCHANTMENT
10 September 2000Natural2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMINERAL FIRE
8 August 2005Natural2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBARNETT
12 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLUCERO
6 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division337
6 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMINERAL
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJUSTIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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 Ojitos Frios: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Hammond MineCopperPast Producer1917, 1918
Hammond MineCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ojitos Frios in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 hail. 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 2023HailOjitos Frios-no account filed
October 2023HailOjitos Frios-no account filed

Every storm 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
Lagunas1.4 miles15
Santa Ana2.8 miles15
La Manga2.9 miles15
Cedar Hill3.1 miles15
Gabaldon3.1 miles15
Romeroville3.9 miles14
Ojita4.0 miles14
Agua Zarca4.0 miles15

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 Q122555193The 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 909283. 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.