Placitas, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tierra Amarilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87515. It lies near Lopez Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Canjilon quadrangle.

Placitas within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1918 USGS Abiquiu quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Canjilon quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1995 USGS Canjilon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Placitas between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,513 acres in total. 40 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	not named
4 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	UPPER LOPEZ
1 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	GENERIC
8 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	MARTINEZ TRAIL
8 August 2002	Natural	1.5 acres	Carson National Forest	MOGOTITO
6 August 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	MONTOYA SPRING
3 August 1995	Natural	23 acres	Carson National Forest	BLAS
29 August 2019	Natural	2,950 acres	Carson National Forest	MONTOYA SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba 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 Placitas: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
	Horney Toad	Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Canjilon	2.3 miles	13
Cebolla	6.8 miles	14
Alire	7.7 miles	14
El Monte Rojo	8.2 miles	12
Las Nutrias	10.2 miles	11
El Rito	15.2 miles	11
Plaza Blanca	16.0 miles	13
Las Placitas	17.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 909750. 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.