Bland, New Mexico

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• Ceremonial Cave, Blandfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Kiva (Large), Blandfederal building survey, 4 photographs

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.

• 1892 USGS Santa Clara quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1953 USGS Frijoles quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Los Alamos quadrangle1:100000
• 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
• 2002 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Bland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,905 acres in total. 146 started naturally. 1 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Pines
• O'Neil Landing
• Porter
• Sierra de los Pinos

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Bland: 44 prospects, 39 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sandoval County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 918078. 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.