Onava, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Las Vegas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. The Survey maps it on the Onava quadrangle.

Onava within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1889 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Onava quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Onava between 1996 and 2019, burning about 515 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
23 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HWY 518
9 July 2016	Natural	7.0 acres	Las Vegas District	CANADIAN FIRE
4 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM 354
15 May 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROOKIE
5 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	468 acres	Las Vegas District	19-40580365X
3 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Las Vegas District	MM 352
15 February 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLYDE
20 November 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ONAVA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Onava: 7 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
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
Los Alamos	3.9 miles	14
Kroenigs	4.0 miles	15
Emplazado	5.8 miles	14
Arriba	7.6 miles	14
East Las Vegas (historical)	8.9 miles	14
San Antonio	9.3 miles	14
Los Vigiles	9.5 miles	16
Las Vegas	9.9 miles	14

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 Q122566375

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 899826. 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.