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Vallecitos, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Vallecitos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87581. It stands on CaƱada de Borracho. The Survey maps it on the La Madera quadrangle. It stands 7,418 feet above sea level.

Vallecitos within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Vallecitos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 718 acres in total. 97 started naturally. None was 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
Natural97
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestEAST ORTEGA
25 September 2006Natural1.5 acresCarson National ForestBURMA
24 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestRANCHO
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestCANADA
22 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestEAST ORTEGA
22 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreCarson National ForestJUNK
11 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestANCONES
1 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestORTIZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Vallecitos: 41 past producers, 39 prospects, 12 occurrences, 10 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Kyanite, Beryllium, Mica, 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
Alamos GroupBeryllium, Mica, REE, Thorium, Feldspar, UraniumPast Producer1870, 1875, 1950
Apache No. 2 MineMica, Bismuth, Beryllium, Uranium, Thorium, REEPast Producer1880, 1900, 1965
Capitan MineMica, Uranium, Thorium, REE, BerylliumPast Producer1675, 1955
Cribbenville GroupMica, Niobium (Columbium), Bismuth, REEPast Producer1700, 1960
Cribbenville MineMica, Uranium, Thorium, REE, FeldsparPast Producer1675, 1955
El CaminoMica, BerylliumProspect
El ContentoBeryllium, Feldspar, MicaProspect
FridlundREE, Bismuth, Niobium (Columbium), MicaPast Producer
Fridlund MineMica, Niobium (Columbium), Uranium, Thorium, REEPast Producer1920, 1950, 1958
La Jarita-Apache GroupMica, Beryllium, Feldspar, Niobium (Columbium), Thorium, Uranium, REE, BismuthPast Producer1850, 1965

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vallecitos in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 1998Thunderstorm WindVallecitos$20,000A fast moving and unusual late night line of thunderstorms produced gusty winds and several small but intense microbursts which ripped the roof off several small cabins near Vallecitos.

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba 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
South Petaca5.6 miles12
Ancones5.7 miles12
Petaca5.7 miles12
Las Tablas6.2 miles12
La Madera8.5 miles12
La Cueva (historical)9.5 miles12
El Rito11.1 miles11
Las Placitas12.1 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.

Wikipedia article on VallecitosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19818367The 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 912055. 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.