Claremont, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Reserve census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88039. It lies near Red Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mogollon quadrangle.

Claremont within Catron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1910 USGS Mogollon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1912 USGS Mogollon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mogollon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mogollon Mountains quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Mogollon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Claremont between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,495 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 1 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	64
Recreation and ceremony	6
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
30 September 2005	Natural	122 acres	Gila National Forest	OCTOBER
3 September 1997	Natural	80 acres	Gila National Forest	GROUSE
13 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	WOPPER
11 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Gila National Forest	TOWNSITE
7 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
29 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	SILVER
2 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
17 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 96 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 96 workings within 5 miles of Claremont: 43 unknowns, 20 past producers, 15 occurrences, 9 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Baby Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1956
Bearup Mine	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	1969
Cooney Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1875, 1885, 1911
Cooney Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer
Little Fanney Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Producer	1895, 1934
Mogollon District	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron	Producer	1875, 1879
N Slope Whitewater Canyon Prospect	Manganese, Tungsten	Occurrence
Pacific Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
The Lime Kiln	Calcium	Unknown
Trilby Mine	Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Argentite, Gold

Every working recorded in Catron 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
Mogollon	1.3 miles	14
Cooney	1.7 miles	14
Alma	6.9 miles	14
Glenwood	8.5 miles	14
Wilcox Peak	9.2 miles	14
Pleasanton	10.8 miles	14
Lower San Francisco Plaza	17.4 miles	14
Rancho Grande Estates	19.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898996. 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.