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Spiess, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87540. It lies near Cerro Colorado. The Survey maps it on the Galisteo quadrangle.

Spiess within Santa Fe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Spiess between 1994 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined24
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWS FIRE
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division285 FIRE
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSF SOUTHERN
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
28 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOS CABAUOS
24 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRESTLE
4 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGALISTEO
2 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBADBOY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe 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 Spiess: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spiess in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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 2008HailSpiess-The hail lasted for 20 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Santa Fe 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
Lamy2.1 miles13
Los Marias3.7 miles13
Galisteo4.9 miles13
Eldorado at Santa Fe4.9 miles18
Kennedy5.7 miles13
El Dorado5.7 miles18
El Dorado at Santa Fe6.2 miles18
Chapatalito (historical)8.7 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 Q122572443The 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 898856. 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.