Black Hawk, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88055. It lies near Bullard Peak. The Survey maps it on the Bullard Peak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Black Hawk within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Redrock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1990 USGS Bullard Peak quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Bullard Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Black Hawk (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 43 acres in total. 6 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	6

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
9 September 2015	Natural	4.9 acres	Gila National Forest	CHIMNEY
8 August 2018	Natural	32 acres	Gila National Forest	KELLY
18 July 2002	Natural	2.5 acres	Gila National Forest	SHRINE
12 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	SIPHON
10 June 2009	Natural	2.5 acres	Gila National Forest	SAWMILL
31 October 1992	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Black Hawk (historical): 19 prospects, 16 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Bismuth. 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	Recorded
(Facility) Hidalgo Smelter	Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid	Plant
Alhambra Mine	Silver, Uranium, Nickel, Cobalt, Arsenic, Copper, Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Astrologer Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Astrologer Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc	Prospect
Black Hawk Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Uranium, Zinc, Cobalt	Past Producer	1881, 1918
Evening Star	Tungsten, Bismuth	Prospect	1954
German Mine No 2	Zinc, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Greenrock	Tungsten, Lead, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Scheelite
Hard Pan Mine	Zinc, Copper, Lead	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Live Oak Prospect	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Prospect	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite

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
Alhambra (historical)	1.3 miles	12
The Pines	3.9 miles	15
Telegraph (historical)	7.4 miles	11
Mangas Springs	9.5 miles	11
Oak Grove	10.7 miles	13
Malone (historical)	11.2 miles	12
Redrock	11.5 miles	12
Tyrone	11.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 919960. 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.