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Upper Frijoles Crossing, New Mexico

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the White Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87544. It lies near Escobas Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Frijoles quadrangle.

Upper Frijoles Crossing within Los Alamos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Upper Frijoles Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66,295 acres in total. 178 started naturally. 9 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
Natural178
Recreation and ceremony26
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestBOUNDARY
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFIR
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBandelier National MonumentOSIFRIDAY
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreBandelier National MonumentPONDEROSA
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLOSER
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestWATER CANYON
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBandelier National MonumentALAMO SPRINGS
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCANON

Every fire recorded in Los Alamos 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 Upper Frijoles Crossing: 1 unknown. 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 Pit 57-69-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Los Alamos 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
Los Alamos5.8 miles21
White Rock8.4 miles20

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 Q122566359The 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 911987. 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.