Apache, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mescalero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88340. It lies near Horse Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Golondrina Draw quadrangle.

Apache within Otero County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1950 USGS Sierra Blanca Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Golondrina Draw quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Apache between 1992 and 2017, burning about 40 acres in total. 11 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	11
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	EAST PENA RIDGE
13 August 2012	Natural	1.3 acres	Mescalero Agency	PEMA RIDGE
8 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	PENA
31 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	VALDEZ
30 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	INDIAN CREEK
26 July 1999	Natural	30 acres	Mescalero Agency	SHANTAWELL
2 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	BOUNDARY
10 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Apache: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Three Rivers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Otero 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
Three Rivers	9.1 miles	14
Salinas	10.4 miles	13
Carrizo	10.8 miles	10
Bent	11.8 miles	10
Blazers Mill	13.2 miles	10
Mescalero	13.4 miles	10
Tularosa	18.4 miles	13
Whitetail	19.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 903209. 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.