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Carisbrook, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It stands on East Fork Chicorica Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yankee quadrangle.

Carisbrook within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Carisbrook between 1996 and 2020, burning about 23,277 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
5 August 2014Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSUGARITE
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPOCKET
24 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLITTLE HORSE
3 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionYANKEE
22 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHWY 64/87
19 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMESA
18 July 2014Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBARTLETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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 Carisbrook: 4 unknowns. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sugarite1.9 miles15
Yankee3.0 miles15
Raton3.7 miles15
Dillon5.7 miles15
Keota6.1 miles15
Gardiner6.3 miles15
Brilliant9.1 miles11
Hebron13.3 miles8

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 Q122566639The 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 902196. 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.