Las Conchas Fire
The Las Conchas Fire was a large wildfire in the U.S. state, state of New Mexico, in the United States, in 2011. The fire started in Santa Fe National Forest and burned more than 150,000 acres, threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory and the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Los Alamos. After five days of burning, it became the largest wildfire in New Mexico state history at the time. It was surpassed in 2012 by the much larger Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fire and in 2022 by the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire and the Black Fire (2022), Black Fire making the Las Conchas Fire the fourth-largest fire in New Mexico's recorded history. Progression The fire started on June 26, 2011, at approximately 1:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time at when a gust of wind blew a severely rotted aspen tree on private property into a power line on a Jemez Electric Cooperative easement. The ignition point remained largely unburned, with the fire jumping to the canopy farther downwind. On the first da ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Española, New Mexico
Española is a city primarily in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. A portion of the central and eastern section of the city is in Santa Fe County. Founded as a railroad village some distance from the old Indian town of San Juan de los Caballeros (now renamed Ohkay Owingeh), it was named Española and officially incorporated in 1925. It has been called the first capital city in the United States. At the time of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 10,495.
Española is within the .

History

Etymology

Esp ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]