Sunlit Hills, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87508. The Survey maps it on the Seton Village quadrangle.

Sunlit Hills within Santa Fe County

On record in Sunlit Hills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Seton VillageNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1889 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Seton Village quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Seton Village quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Sunlit Hills between 1994 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PETE
6 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	BARBERIA
17 August 1996	Natural	12 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	CORRAL
16 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BARBARIA
9 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ALTEZA
8 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MEDIAN FIRE
8 July 1999	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	HAGEN
7 July 2009	Fireworks	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CHURCH HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Seton Village	0.9 miles	18
La Loma	2.2 miles	18
El Dorado at Santa Fe	2.8 miles	18
El Dorado	3.2 miles	18
Cañada de los Alamos	3.3 miles	19
Eldorado at Santa Fe	4.3 miles	18
Analco (historical)	6.7 miles	23
Santa Fe	6.9 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806769. 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.