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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.

Tres Piedras within Taos County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

88 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural53
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestPIEDRAS
7 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCarson National ForestTP WELL 1&2
7 September 1993Naturalunder an acreCarson National Forestnot named
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestROAD TANK
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCarson National ForestBONE YARD
24 September 1993Naturalunder an acreCarson National Forestnot named
22 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestSNAG
6 August 2019Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestLARGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taos County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Tres Piedras$10,000A 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 2009HailTres Piedras-no account filed
May 1997HailTres Piedras-no account filed
May 1997HailTres Piedras-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taos 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
No Agua5.1 miles9
Servilleta6.7 miles9
Arroyo Hondo17.5 miles9
San Cristobal17.7 miles9
Lama18.5 miles9
CaƱoncito19.0 miles9
Lobo (historical)19.9 miles10
Taos Junction20.0 miles12

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 PiedrasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18354289The 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.