Ricardo, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88119. The Survey maps it on the Ricardo quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ricardo within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Ricardo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ricardo (historical) between 2000 and 2019, burning about 43,702 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 August 2003	Natural	30 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BIGOTE
10 August 2011	Natural	18 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SOUTH PIT
29 July 2011	Natural	840 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JOHNNY MAC
25 July 2016	Natural	100 acres	Capitan District	SOUTH EAST MILL
26 June 2019	Natural	56 acres	Capitan District	19-51430541X
23 June 2016	Natural	30 acres	Capitan District	NORTH MCMILLAN
20 June 2006	Natural	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
1 June 2009	Natural	400 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TWIN MILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in De Baca 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
Agudo	4.4 miles	7
Evanola	6.0 miles	7
Fort Sumner	9.3 miles	7
Guadalupe	11.0 miles	7
Yeso	12.4 miles	6
Salado	13.7 miles	7
La Lande	13.9 miles	7
Lake Sumner	16.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923519. 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.