Shady Brook, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Taos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87571. It lies near Casias Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Shady Brook quadrangle.

Shady Brook within Taos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Shady Brook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Shady Brook quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Shady Brook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,433 acres in total. 20 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	20
Recreation and ceremony	18
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
27 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson National Forest	CAMP
27 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Carson National Forest	TAOS CANYON
10 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BELL
10 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	GARCIA PARK
7 August 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Carson National Forest	TETILLAS
6 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	LUCY
4 August 2000	Natural	10 acres	Carson National Forest	DRAKE
28 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 Shady Brook: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	State Pit No.M-15276	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Valle Escondido	4.6 miles	11
Cañon	5.3 miles	11
Taos	6.1 miles	11
Taos Pueblo	6.2 miles	11
El Prado	7.1 miles	11
Talpa	7.1 miles	10
Ranchito	7.3 miles	11
Ranchos de Taos	7.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 910968. 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.