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Blazers Mill, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Mescalero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88340. It lies near North Fork Tularosa Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mescalero quadrangle.

Blazers Mill within Otero County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

406 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 406 fires within 5 miles of Blazers Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,854 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 35 were 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/undetermined132
Debris and open burning70
Natural40
Recreation and ceremony39
Arson/incendiarism35
Other causes21
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Fireworks17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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
5 September 1992Smokingunder an acreMescalero AgencyEVANS
30 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMescalero AgencyEAST CIRHUALAS
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMescalero AgencyELM STREET
15 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMescalero AgencyCHINO WELL
13 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMescalero AgencyKOKOPELLI 2
8 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMescalero AgencyCASTLE
7 August 2014Naturalunder an acreMescalero AgencyGRAVEL CANYON
7 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMescalero AgencyA SIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Blazers Mill: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mescalero Magnetite-HematiteIronUnknown
Virginia MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1905, 1917
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 80-3-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mescalero0.7 miles10
Bent3.7 miles10
Silver Springs9.7 miles9
Carrizo9.8 miles10
Apache13.2 miles9
Whitetail13.3 miles8
Tularosa13.5 miles13
Cloudcroft13.9 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122566855The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 903917. 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.