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Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 2006. It stands in the Rio Rancho census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87004. It stands on Sandia Wash. The Survey maps it on the Bernalillo quadrangle.

Sandia Pueblo within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2021

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

View of Sandia Pueblo, between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico
View of Sandia Pueblo, between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Sandia Pueblo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Debris and open burning38
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
9 September 1992Natural2.0 acresSouthern Pueblos Agencynot named
8 September 1992Smoking1.0 acresCibola National Forestnot named
5 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyBACA
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySHADY
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDM
8 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCASINO
6 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyTURKEY
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyLOST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sandia Pueblo: 9 past producers, 6 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Beryllium, Lithium, Zirconium. 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
La Quava and La MaderaBeryllium, Lithium, ZirconiumUnknown
Materials Pit #57-45-FClayUnknown
Placitas DistrictGoldPast ProducerPLACER
Quartz Mine No 1QuartzUnknown
Wylie PitStoneProducer
9700 North Second PlantPumiceUnknown
Esquire Claims 5-9 PlantPumiceProducer
A.F.Cole PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sandoval County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandia Pueblo in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSandia Pueblo$20,000no account filed
August 2012Flash FloodSandia Pueblo$5,000Water and debris significantly impacted State Road 313 near Sandia Wash a few miles north of Sandia Pueblo.
August 2025Tornado (EFU)Sandia Pueblo-A video shared by broadcast media shows a landspout near the Bernalillo/Sandoval County line. Location and timing are estimated based on the information provided from broadcast media.
July 2013Flash FloodSandia Pueblo-NM 313 closed due to flooding from Tramway to the southern end of Bernalillo.

Every storm recorded in Sandoval 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
Pueblo of Sandia Village0.1 miles20
Corrales2.2 miles22
Bernalillo3.2 miles20
Las Cocinitas (historical)3.2 miles20
Desert Mountain5.0 miles20
Rio Rancho5.1 miles21
Rio Rancho Estates5.2 miles21
Anasazi Trails5.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 928809. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.