BlockBrilliant, New Mexico
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It lies near Rockhouse Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tin Pan Canyon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Brilliant quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1971 USGS Tin Pan Canyon quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Brilliant between 1993 and 2020, burning about 24,302 acres in total. 14 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 15 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | COAL |
| 9 August 2002 | Natural | 12 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | OLD PASS |
| 9 August 2000 | Natural | 45 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DUTCHMAN |
| 7 August 2020 | Natural | 11 acres | Cimarron District | HIK |
| 13 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | OLDPASS |
| 7 July 2001 | Natural | 6.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 5 July 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
| 21 July 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keota | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Gardiner | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Raton | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| Dillon | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Sugarite | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Carisbrook | 9.1 miles | 15 | |
| Yankee | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| Van Houten | 11.4 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Brilliant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19600597 | The 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 902183. 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.