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Sierra de los Pinos, New Mexico

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Jemez-Zia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87025. It lies near Vallecitos de los Indios. The Survey maps it on the Redondo Peak quadrangle.

Sierra de los Pinos within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

356 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Sierra de los Pinos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164,305 acres in total. 178 started naturally. 2 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
Natural178
Recreation and ceremony129
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestFIR
6 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestBONCO
5 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHIGHWAY 4
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestROUND
30 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
29 September 1992Natural3.0 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSTARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval 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 Sierra de los Pinos: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Murray SpringGeothermalUnknown
Pit Number 74-4-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
La Cueva5.2 miles24
Jemez Springs6.1 miles24
Sulphur Springs6.7 miles24
Bland7.6 miles21
Pines8.4 miles21
Seven Springs8.9 miles25
Porter10.4 miles20
Deer Creek Landing10.8 miles18

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 Q122592716The 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 902788. 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.