Casa Grande, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It lies near Vermejo Park. The Survey maps it on the Casa Grande quadrangle.

Casa Grande within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Casa Grande quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Casa Grande quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Casa Grande between 1994 and 2020, burning about 273 acres in total. 33 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
5 September 2002	Natural	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JUAN
3 September 2001	Natural	28 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HOLLY
5 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CRAZYWOMEN
30 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GACHUPIN
2 August 2012	Natural	1.2 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GRIFFIN
2 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	POOLER
10 August 2003	Natural	1.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JUAN BACA
9 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SPRING

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
Shuree	13.9 miles	12
Loretta (historical)	17.5 miles	11
Capitan Hill	18.5 miles	11
Dawson (historical)	18.9 miles	11
Six Mile Gate	20.8 miles	11
Deep Tunnel (historical)	21.0 miles	15
Koehler	21.7 miles	11
Moreno (historical)	22.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898637. 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.