Punta de Agua, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87036. It lies near Cañon Sapato. The Survey maps it on the Punta de Agua quadrangle.

Punta de Agua within Torrance County

On record in Punta de 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 1 record

QuaraiNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1917 USGS Estancia quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Torreon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Belen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Punta De Agua quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Punta De Agua quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Punta de Agua between 1992 and 2020, burning about 180 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	23
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
9 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LAGUNESSE
8 July 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	GRASS
6 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROMERO
5 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	HWY 55
4 July 2005	Fireworks	9.6 acres	Cibola National Forest	MANZANO
26 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	APPLE
19 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	KAYSER
13 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	LAKE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Torrance County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Punta de Agua: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jack's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Torrance 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
El Gato	1.7 miles	11
La Cienega	2.7 miles	11
Los Chavez	3.1 miles	11
Chato	4.0 miles	12
Manzano	4.6 miles	12
Mountainair	5.9 miles	10
Candelaria Place	6.2 miles	12
Thunderbird	6.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 918306. 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.