Tafoya, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Springer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It lies near Las Mesetas. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence Arroyo quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Tafoya within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1974 USGS Lawrence Arroyo quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Springer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Tafoya (historical) between 1999 and 2017, burning about 993 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
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	URRACA
20 July 2016	Natural	12 acres	Cimarron District	LAKE
13 July 2017	Natural	40 acres	Cimarron District	CREEK
1 July 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FARLEY
18 April 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DOERR
22 March 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	805 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	UNION
1 February 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	124 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ARMIJO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tafoya (historical): 2 unknowns. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Colfax 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
Palo Blanco (historical)	4.0 miles	8
Farley	6.5 miles	8
Chico	7.5 miles	8
Abbott	14.3 miles	8
Kiowa	14.6 miles	8
Tinaja	22.5 miles	8
Taylor Springs	24.3 miles	8
Maxwell	26.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 933146. 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.