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Broadview, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87021. The Survey maps it on the Grants quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,558 feet above sea level.

Broadview within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Broadview between 1999 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2011Natural1.0 acresCibola National ForestRINCONADA
19 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo DistrictCRASH
26 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeCOLLEGE
5 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresBernalillo DistrictMILE MARKER 74
29 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresCibola National ForestMILAN
12 June 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionKIDS
16 May 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRIO SAN JOSE
28 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Broadview: 10 past producers, 7 producers, 5 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Limestone, Dimension, Perlite. 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
Flea MineClayPast Producer
Lone Pine 3 MineVanadium, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer1954, 1955
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
F-33 MineUranium, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer1954, 1959
Grants Perlite MillPerliteProducer
United States Gypsum Perlite MinePerlitePast Producer
Hamilton PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
Materials Pit 67-29-SLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Materials Pit 67-31-SLimestone, DimensionUnknown
United Nuclear-Homestake MillUranium, VanadiumProducer

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Toltec2.3 miles20
Golden Acres2.4 miles20
Milan4.2 miles20
Grants5.7 miles20
Bluewater6.3 miles19
Lobo Canyon7.9 miles20
San Rafael8.1 miles19
Stoneridge13.4 miles17

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 BroadviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107463015The 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 2806687. 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.