BlockTinaja, New Mexico
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It lies near Mine Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Tail Mountain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1971 USGS Eagle Tail Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Tinaja between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,261 acres in total. 10 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2016 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Cimarron District | MYSTERY |
| 4 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Cimarron District | T.O. SOUTH |
| 25 July 2009 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | EAGLE TAIL |
| 22 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BLOSSER |
| 20 July 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 13 July 2019 | Natural | 24 acres | Cimarron District | 20-20120059X |
| 6 June 2006 | Natural | 600 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CREWS |
| 15 June 2006 | Natural | 11 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898603. 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.