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San Lorenzo, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Rio Chama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87537. It stands on Gallina Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vallecitos quadrangle. It stands 7,126 feet above sea level.

San Lorenzo within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of San Lorenzo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,996 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 5 were 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
Natural56
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4

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
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyCABALLO
8 August 2018Natural2.6 acresCarson National ForestPOSOS
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHOMESTEAD
30 August 2009Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestOVINGH
29 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestVALLECITOS
29 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSTUMP
29 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of San Lorenzo: 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Forest RoadStoneUnknown
Materials Pit No. 69-10-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 69-11-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 69-9-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Clara Peak2.5 miles14
Recheulos2.9 miles14
Vallecitos Corrales4.0 miles14
Puye6.1 miles19
Chili8.2 miles14
La Chuachia8.4 miles14
Hernandez8.8 miles15
El Duende8.9 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.

Wikipedia article on San LorenzoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7414688The 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 910651. 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.