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Antelope, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the North Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88020. The Survey maps it on the Beacon Hill quadrangle.

Antelope within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Antelope in 2020, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeANIMAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
Windmill4.9 miles17
Animas5.0 miles12
White Place5.6 miles17
Playas10.0 miles17
Cotton City12.6 miles9
Jim Robinson13.7 miles12
Spears16.6 miles14
Eakins17.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898516. 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.