Puertecito, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2006. It stands in the Rio Rancho census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87047. It lies near Cañon del Agua. The Survey maps it on the Hagan quadrangle.

Puertecito within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1892 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Hagan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS San Felipe Pueblo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Hagan quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
1990 USGS Hagan quadrangle1:24000
2006 USGS Hagan quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Puertecito between 1993 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
15 August 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Cibola National Forest	SAN PEDRO CREEK
6 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PUERTOCITA
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GILDEN
16 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MADERA
15 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	DOC LONG
15 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CAMPBELL
15 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Bernalillo District	GOLDEN
11 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LA MADERA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Puertecito: 7 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Crummy Number One Prospect	Copper, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Diamond Tail Project	Uranium	Prospect
Mimi Number Four Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence
Campbell Farming Corporation Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
La Luz	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Montezuma	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Pit Number 58-77-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Placitas	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
A Placer	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
Hagan (historical)	3.0 miles	20
San Pedro Overlook	3.7 miles	17
San Pedro Creek	3.8 miles	17
Tejon (historical)	5.2 miles	20
La Madera	5.3 miles	17
Diamond Tail Ranch	5.8 miles	20
Coyote (historical)	6.0 miles	20
Las Huertas	6.1 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915880. 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.