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Seven Lakes, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Crownpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87013. The Survey maps it on the Seven Lakes quadrangle.

Seven Lakes within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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,

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.

Bee Burrow, Seven Lakes Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM
Bee Burrow, Seven Lakes Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Seven Lakes in 1996, burning under an acre in total. None 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
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
26 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHAGGY

Every fire recorded in McKinley 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
Whitehorse10.1 miles18
Hospah10.6 miles18
Crownpoint13.6 miles13
Borrego Pass15.2 miles14
Piedra de la Aguila17.2 miles17
Pueblo Pintado19.2 miles18
Smith Lake21.1 miles14
Standing Rock22.6 miles13

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 Q4959242The 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 902844. 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.