Tres Piedras, New Mexico
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tres Piedras census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87577. It lies in Tres Piedras Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tres Piedras quadrangle. It stands 8,100 feet above sea level.
On record in Tres Piedras
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 2 records
Tres Piedras Railroad Water Towerlisted 1979- Tres Piedras Administrative Site, Oldlisted 1993
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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
- 1963 USGS Tres Piedras quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Wheeler Peak quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Tres Piedras quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
88 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Tres Piedras between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 53 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | PIEDRAS |
| 7 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Carson National Forest | TP WELL 1&2 |
| 7 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | ROAD TANK |
| 24 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Carson National Forest | BONE YARD |
| 24 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | SNAG |
| 6 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | LARGO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tres Piedras: 4 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tres Piedras in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Tres Piedras | $10,000 | A brief tornado, likely a landspout, occurred two miles south of the Highway 64 and 285 intersection. The tornado tore the roof off a barn and ripped up some fencing. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Tres Piedras | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Tres Piedras | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Tres Piedras | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Agua | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Servilleta | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Arroyo Hondo | 17.5 miles | 9 | |
| San Cristobal | 17.7 miles | 9 | |
| Lama | 18.5 miles | 9 | |
| CaƱoncito | 19.0 miles | 9 | |
| Lobo (historical) | 19.9 miles | 10 | |
| Taos Junction | 20.0 miles | 12 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Tres Piedras | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18354289 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 928829. 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.




