Plaza Blanca, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Rio Chama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87530. It stands on Arroyo las Tunas. The Survey maps it on the Canjilon SE quadrangle.

Plaza Blanca within Rio Arriba County

On record in Plaza Blanca

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Plaza Blanca Community Ditchlisted 1986
Plaza Blanca Historic Districtlisted 1986

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 SE 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 SE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Plaza Blanca between 1997 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
18 July 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	PINE CONE
15 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chama District	PADILLA
30 May 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson National Forest	RED ROCKS #6 ACF
23 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
22 May 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
17 May 1997	Natural	6.5 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	MAESTAS
1 May 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JACK
18 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chama District	189

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Plaza Blanca: 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, 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	Recorded
Lily Belle	Copper	Prospect
Ra03-001	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Las Minas De Pedro Prospect	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1917
Las Minas Jimmie Prospect	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1917

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
Tierra Azul	3.5 miles	14
Abiquiu	3.9 miles	14
El Curuco	4.0 miles	14
La Careda	4.3 miles	14
Buena Vista	4.8 miles	14
Barranca	5.0 miles	14
Medanales	7.2 miles	14
Las Placitas	7.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 901409. 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.