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Tinaja, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87321. It lies near Ojo Bonito Canyon. The Survey maps it on the El Morro quadrangle.

Tinaja within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Tinaja between 1993 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 1 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
Natural69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2003Naturalunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyWELL
30 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestEL MORRO
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestLOST
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo DistrictSTANLEY
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyEL MORRO 2
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestCANONCITO
27 August 2000Natural2.9 acresCibola National ForestMULE
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEl Malpais National MonumentLARGO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Tinaja: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Snyder PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Road Material PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tinaja PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tinaja in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindTinaja-Spotter reported an intense burst of wind blew over several light weight objects on the property, including lawn furniture and a dog house. The dog was not injured.
August 2013HailTinaja-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pueblito1.0 miles17
Sand Corner3.6 miles17
El Morro6.7 miles17
Sawyer6.7 miles17
Aragon7.2 miles17
Copperton7.5 miles17
Diener9.7 miles17
Pinehill9.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923706. 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.