Capitan Hill, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Raton census division. It stands on Capitan Hill. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle.

Capitan Hill within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Cimarron quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Dawson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Capitan Hill between 2000 and 2017, burning about 642 acres in total. 17 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	17

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
10 September 2000	Natural	65 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SALT
6 August 2001	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DAWSON
31 August 2012	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STOUT
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RAIL
29 August 2002	Natural	73 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CALIENTE
9 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	METAL BRIDGE
21 July 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SALTPETER
6 June 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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
Dawson (historical)	0.4 miles	11
Loretta (historical)	1.1 miles	11
Colfax	5.4 miles	11
Koehler	9.6 miles	11
Six Mile Gate	11.6 miles	11
Cimarron	13.3 miles	11
Van Houten	13.9 miles	12
Schomberg	14.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899558. 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.