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Valle Vista, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87508. It stands on CaƱada del Rancho. The Survey maps it on the Turquoise Hill quadrangle.

Valle Vista within Santa Fe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

102 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Valle Vista between 1993 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning8
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
14 September 2003Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSTACEY
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionM60
18 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDENNIS
11 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBernalillo District21-60540190X
11 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJUSTIN
9 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Valle Vista: 13 unknowns, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Manganese, Volcanic Materials. 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
La Cienga MineVolcanic MaterialsProducerCinders, Scoria
Leeder PitStoneProducer
La CienegaManganesePast Producer1950
La Cienega Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence1940
La Cieniga ScoriaPumiceProducer
Unnamed Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Unnamed Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Unnamed Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Unnamed Pumice MinePumiceUnknown
Unnamed Pumice MinePumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
Cieneguilla3.5 miles17
La Cienega4.0 miles18
Bonanza City (historical)4.4 miles17
Agua Fria5.3 miles20
Tres Arroyos6.3 miles20
Seton Village6.9 miles18
Sunlit Hills7.3 miles18
La Loma7.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806777. 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.