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Pasitos del Cielo, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Los Lunas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87031. It stands on La Canada de la Loma de Arena. The Survey maps it on the Tome quadrangle.

Pasitos del Cielo within Valencia 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.

Fires near this place

346 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of Pasitos del Cielo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,381 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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 burning188
Missing data/not specified/undetermined100
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural6
Smoking4
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionANIMAL
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSKUNK FIRE
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionAFS FIRE
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo District20-60460253X
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGROOT FIRE
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMANZANO S
29 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBUNTON
29 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pasitos del Cielo: 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tome' WellGeothermalUnknown
Materials Pit 56-10-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 57-133-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Valencia 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
Rio del Oro0.8 miles10
El Cerro1.2 miles10
Las Maravillas1.5 miles10
La Ladera1.7 miles10
Adelino2.3 miles10
Tome2.5 miles10
Monterey Park3.6 miles10
Los Chavez3.7 miles10

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 Q122595869The 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 2413658. 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.