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Rencona, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. The Survey maps it on the Rencona quadrangle.

Rencona within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rencona between 1999 and 2002, burning about 11 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 June 2000Natural6.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHUDDLESTON
28 June 2002Natural2.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestBEGOSO
26 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestEAGLE
26 May 2000Natural2.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestSAN JOSE
22 May 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPALMER
22 May 1999Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestZIG ZAG
18 May 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCHIMAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rencona: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Martinez PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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
Ilfeld9.9 miles14
Gise10.0 miles14
South San Ysidro11.1 miles14
Gonzales Ranch11.4 miles15
Sands11.5 miles15
Pajarita11.7 miles14
Soham11.9 miles15
San Jose11.9 miles15

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 Q122545103The 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 910121. 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.