Sierra Vista Estates, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the East Bernalillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87008. It lies near Lorenzo Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sandia Park quadrangle.

Sierra Vista Estates within Bernalillo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1892 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Sandia Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
1990 USGS Sandia Park quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Sierra Vista Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony	51
Natural	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
7 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	DOC LONG
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	462
26 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	5 HILLS
25 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	not named
22 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	CEDRO WEST
15 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	DOC
4 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	WALKER
28 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	KIWANIS 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bernalillo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Sierra Vista Estates: 9 unknowns, 8 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Carbonatite Deposit	Cobalt	Unknown
Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown
Ideal Basic Industries Cement Plant and Quarry	Cement Rock	Producer	1959
Mary M	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Materials Pit 58-9-S	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Shakespeare Mine	Barium-Barite, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Barite, Chalcocite, Copper, Fluorite
Tijeras Mine	Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Sedimentary
Blue Sky	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Crusher Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Bernalillo 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
Rincon	1.0 miles	18
Forest Park	1.1 miles	18
Cañoncito	1.1 miles	17
El Refugio	1.2 miles	18
Cedar Crest	1.5 miles	18
Pinon Ridge Estates	1.6 miles	17
Kemp (historical)	1.6 miles	21
Zamora	1.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2055897. 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.