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Carson, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tres Piedras census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87517. The Survey maps it on the Carson quadrangle. It stands 6,847 feet above sea level.

Carson within Taos County

On record in Carson

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Carson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 31 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
28 August 2001Naturalunder an acreTaos Field OfficeHONDOCANON
24 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCarson National Forestnot named
19 August 2004Naturalunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyROCKY WALK
27 July 2004Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestJUNIPER
25 July 2018Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestRAVEN
25 July 2003Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestOREJAS
21 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTaos Field OfficeROADSIDE
2 July 2015Naturalunder an acreTaos Field OfficeOVERLOOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 Carson: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Lithium, Beryllium, Mica. 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
Blue Feather ClaimsTantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Lithium, Beryllium, MicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Taos County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carson in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2018Flash FloodCarson-NM-567 closed due to flash flooding near Carson.

Every storm recorded in Taos 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
Pilar6.6 miles12
Los Cordovas7.0 miles9
Taos Junction7.0 miles12
Llano Quemado8.2 miles10
Ranchos de Taos8.3 miles10
Lower Ranchito8.6 miles11
Barranca8.9 miles12
Talpa9.1 miles10

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 CarsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5046896The 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 904813. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.