Cienega, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southeast Otero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79837. The Survey maps it on the Cienega School quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cienega within Otero County

On record in Cienega

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Double House, Cienegafederal building survey, 2 photographs

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Cienega School quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Crow Flats quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Double House, Cienega (historical), Otero County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cienega (historical): 2 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Otero 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
Corner Well	30.9 miles	10
Piñon	42.1 miles	8
Martin Well	43.8 miles	11
Avis	48.6 miles	8
Timberon	50.3 miles	9
Benton Well	54.1 miles	11
Crisp	55.3 miles	8
Maxon	56.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920447. 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.

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.