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Pueblito, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87321. It lies near Valle Largo. The Survey maps it on the El Morro quadrangle.

Pueblito within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

69 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Pueblito between 1993 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 62 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
Natural62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestEL MORRO
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestLOST
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo DistrictSTANLEY
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyEL MORRO 2
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestCANONCITO
4 August 2011Naturalunder an acreEl Morro National MonumentARAGON SPRINGS
27 August 2000Natural2.9 acresCibola National ForestMULE
23 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTINAJA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola 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 Pueblito: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Snyder PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Road Material PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tinaja PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Tinaja1.0 miles17
Sand Corner4.3 miles17
El Morro6.4 miles17
Aragon7.1 miles17
Sawyer7.5 miles17
Copperton7.7 miles17
Pinehill9.6 miles11
Diener9.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2740847. 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.