Ancon, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Conchas Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87746. It lies near Cañon Gonzales. The Survey maps it on the Sabinoso quadrangle.

Ancon within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sabinoso quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Roy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ancon between 1996 and 2016, burning about 690 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CARLOS
26 July 2006	Natural	140 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
23 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Las Vegas District	17 MILE
9 June 1996	Natural	24 acres	Albuquerque District Office	GRANDE
15 June 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Las Vegas District	GUTIERREZ
24 April 2000	Natural	10 acres	Taos Field Office	TRAILER
24 March 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	500 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BACK
23 January 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GUTIERREZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Ancon: 10 unknowns, 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bish No 2 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Lester's Cabin	Vanadium, Copper, Uranium	Occurrence
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Cip Lujan	Uranium	Unknown
Hunt Oil Co	Uranium	Unknown
Key Claims	Uranium	Unknown
Lujan Cattle Co	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sabinoso	1.5 miles	7
Sanchez	6.1 miles	7
San Ramon	11.7 miles	7
San Rafael	15.5 miles	6
New Trementina	17.7 miles	6
Trementina	17.8 miles	13
Trujillo	18.8 miles	13
Corazon (historical)	20.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899500. 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.