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Tres Ritos, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Peñasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87579. It lies near La Cueva Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tres Ritos quadrangle.

Tres Ritos within Taos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Tres Ritos between 1992 and 2019, burning about 802 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony28
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestSAMUEL
29 August 2015Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestAL
24 August 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEO
15 August 2011Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictOCOTE
12 August 1996Natural1.0 acresCarson National ForestMOCHAS
5 July 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestLA JUNTA CG #8
5 July 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestLA JUNTA ACF #14
5 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCarson National ForestSIPAPU

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tres Ritos: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working 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
Sipapu2.5 miles11
Angostura2.5 miles10
Las Mochas3.6 miles11
Rock Wall6.4 miles11
Rio Pueblo7.5 miles11
Llano Largo7.6 miles11
Rodarte8.4 miles11
Llano8.8 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122545417The 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 911810. 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.