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Upper Nutria, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Zuni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87321. It lies near Mexican Hill. The Survey maps it on the Upper Nutria quadrangle.

Upper Nutria within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Upper Nutria between 1992 and 2020, burning about 413 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning63
Natural33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
9 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyHARVEY 2
9 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyBTC
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyLOVELETTER
26 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreZuni AgencyCOLLIRE
25 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyWETLAND
2 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresZuni AgencyHARVEY
1 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forest6 MILE 2
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreZuni AgencyCROW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Upper Nutria: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jurgensen PitStoneUnknown
Upper Nutria Limestone PitStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upper Nutria in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash flood. 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
September 2009Flash FloodUpper Nutria$25,000Dirt roads were washed away by the heavy rainfall in the Timberlake Ranch subdivision. Giant boulders blocked the roadways, preventing residents from making it home from the main roadway.

Every storm recorded in McKinley 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
Lower Nutria1.3 miles16
Timberlake5.6 miles16
Pinehaven6.8 miles16
Page7.8 miles17
McGaffey7.9 miles16
Vanderwagen9.8 miles14
Bread Springs10.2 miles16
Ramah10.3 miles16

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 Q122590645The 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 911998. 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.