Techado, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87315. It lies near Lathert Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Techado quadrangle.

Techado within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Techado quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Fence Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Techado between 1994 and 2016, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning	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
27 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
2 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Rio Puerco Field Office	UNO
2 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Rio Puerco Field Office	DOS
13 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Bernalillo District	LAKE ROAD

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Techado: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit 68-21-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 59-117-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 59-118-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 77-40-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Tingle	10.1 miles	10
Fence Lake	16.1 miles	10
Atarque	19.7 miles	10
Tank Canyon (historical)	21.8 miles	7
Pinehill	28.6 miles	11
El Morro	29.5 miles	17
Pueblito	34.2 miles	17
Tinaja	34.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923701. 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.