Big Mill, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bayard-Santa Rita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88041. It lies near Seneca Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Whitehorse Mountain quadrangle.

Big Mill within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Dwyer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Hatch quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Whitehorse Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Big Mill between 1992 and 2011, burning about 2,905 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	6
Natural	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
10 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	AIRPORT
30 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	710 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TWO-C
5 June 2011	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LAMPBRIGHT
30 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NAN
30 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OVER THE HIL
11 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,850 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WHITE HORSE
31 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Big Mill: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
	Geothermal Well	Geothermal	Unknown

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Faywood (historical)	6.8 miles	13
Dwyer	6.9 miles	9
Hurley	7.9 miles	12
Sherman	8.2 miles	8
San Juan	8.4 miles	9
North Hurley	8.7 miles	12
Whitewater	9.2 miles	12
Bayard	10.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899526. 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.