Ojo Caliente, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Zuni-Ramah Navajo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87327. It stands on Willow Wash. The Survey maps it on the Ojo Caliente Reservoir quadrangle.

Ojo Caliente within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Ojo Caliente Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Fence Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Ojo Caliente between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,047 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning	98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Zuni Agency	REX
29 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Zuni Agency	SACRED
22 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Zuni Agency	CALIENTE
14 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Zuni Agency	WHITE CLAY FIRE
6 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Zuni Agency	WASH
5 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Zuni Agency	37
4 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Zuni Agency	SERVEY
3 August 2000	Natural	18 acres	Zuni Agency	RABBIT

Every fire recorded in Cibola 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 Ojo Caliente: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ojo Caliente Springs	Geothermal	Unknown

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Atarque	18.8 miles	10
Fence Lake	23.8 miles	10
Tingle	28.2 miles	10
Pinehill	30.1 miles	11
El Morro	33.4 miles	17
Sand Corner	36.1 miles	17
Techado	38.4 miles	11
Tinaja	39.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902324. 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.