Canton, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88134. The Survey maps it on the Watts Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Canton within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Watts Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Canton (historical) between 1995 and 2011, burning about 3,959 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	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
8 September 2007	Natural	60 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
10 August 2011	Natural	37 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WORK ALOT
10 August 2011	Natural	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LONGHORN
5 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	600 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LUCE
4 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	900 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CROSS
3 July 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LUCE
17 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RALEIGH
6 June 2006	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Ricardo (historical)

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

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

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in De Baca 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
Taiban	15.5 miles	7
La Lande	16.9 miles	7
Agudo	19.4 miles	7
Fort Sumner	20.9 miles	7
Ricardo (historical)	22.2 miles	7
Dunlap	27.8 miles	7
Evanola	28.1 miles	7
Guadalupe	30.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920230. 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.