Sublette, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Vallecitos census division. The Survey maps it on the Bighorn Peak quadrangle.

Sublette within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1918 USGS Tusas quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bighorn Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chama quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Bighorn Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sublette between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7 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	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	not named
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	FLORENTINO
4 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	SUBLETE
23 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	BUCK
23 August 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	SCHOOL HOUSE
20 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	San Luis Valley Field Office	SAPO
2 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Carson National Forest	BIG HORN
3 July 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson National Forest	ROAD RANGER ACF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sublette: 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Las Cruces Claims	Manganese	Past Producer	1953
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Toltec	2.3 miles	15
Big Horn	2.5 miles	12
San Miguel	4.1 miles	12
Lava	7.2 miles	12
Los Pinos	8.8 miles	12
San Antonio (historical)	9.8 miles	12
Lobato	16.7 miles	14
Crowther Cow Camp	19.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 911457. 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.