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Villa de Cubero, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87014. It lies near Flower Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cubero quadrangle.

Villa de Cubero within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Villa de Cubero between 1992 and 2020, burning about 578 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning84
Smoking18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Other causes3

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
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCANIPA
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencyTRUCKER
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyINTERSTATE
29 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLaguna AgencyMIDNIGHT
29 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHINGLE
19 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyM/M 106
10 August 2009Debris and open burning2.3 acresLaguna AgencyFLOWER MTN.
7 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Villa de Cubero: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bentonite DepositBentoniteUnknown
Materials Pit 61-16-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Woodrow MineUraniumPast Producer
Cubero Land Grant Association PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit 61-17-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
San Fidel Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Cubero1.3 miles18
Budville1.3 miles18
North Acomita Village1.9 miles18
New York2.0 miles18
Acomita2.6 miles18
San Fidel3.0 miles18
West Village3.1 miles18
Seama3.2 miles18

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 Q122552517The 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 898862. 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.