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Primera Agua, New Mexico

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2006. It stands in the East Bernalillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87059. It lies in Primera Agua Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tijeras quadrangle.

Primera Agua within Bernalillo County

On record in Primera Agua

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Primera Agua between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony62
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
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
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National Forest462
26 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division5 HILLS
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
22 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National ForestCEDRO WEST
14 September 2019Natural1.8 acresCibola National ForestHAWK WATCH
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestBEARSCAT
30 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCibola National ForestROBIN
28 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestKIWANIS 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bernalillo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Primera Agua: 13 producers, 11 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 2 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Ideal Basic Industries Cement Plant and QuarryCement RockProducer1959
Little Apples Co. MineCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Mary MGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Materials Pit 58-9-SLimestone, DimensionProducer
Shakespeare MineBarium-Barite, Copper, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceBarite, Chalcocite, Copper, Fluorite
Silver Ring-Verdun ClaimsGold, Silver, LeadUnknown
Tijeras MineLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Tijeras PitClay, StoneProducerSedimentary
Unknown Name Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bernalillo 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
Canyon Estates0.2 miles21
Tijeras0.6 miles21
San Antonio1.3 miles21
Kemp (historical)1.7 miles21
Cedar Crest1.7 miles18
Zamora1.8 miles18
Casa Loma1.9 miles21
Rincon2.2 miles18

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 Q122540749The 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 920941. 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.