Salado, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the West De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88119. It stands on Salado Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sumner Dam quadrangle.

Salado within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Alamogordo Dam quadrangle1:24000
1966 USGS Sumner Dam quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Salado between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3,178 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
30 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FALLON
17 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,920 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WERTHIEM
17 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Capitan District	SENA
17 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TRUJILLO
30 May 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1,100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	POWERLINE
21 May 2006	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
8 March 2018	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Las Vegas District	HURBBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in De Baca 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 Salado: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
	Sumner Lake Gypsum Deposits	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Gypsum

Every working 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
Guadalupe	3.0 miles	7
Lake Sumner	3.0 miles	7
Fort Sumner	11.9 miles	7
Evanola	12.6 miles	7
Ricardo (historical)	13.7 miles	7
Agudo	13.8 miles	7
Yeso	14.7 miles	6
La Lande	17.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899888. 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.