Cora Crew, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Carrizozo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88301. It lies near Milagro Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oscura quadrangle.

Cora Crew within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1916 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Three Rivers quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Oscura quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Tucson Spring quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Oscura quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cora Crew between 1994 and 2018, burning about 623 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
9 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
6 June 2000	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	IBARX
1 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Capitan District	SPOT
31 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SUNSET
13 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
6 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TRASH
21 April 1994	Natural	600 acres	Roswell Field Office	ROSE
16 April 2000	Smoking	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ZOZO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Kimmons	0.6 miles	14
Oscura	1.6 miles	14
Polly	7.3 miles	14
Carrizozo	13.5 miles	14
Villa Madonna	16.5 miles	11
Bonito	16.9 miles	11
Nogal	17.6 miles	15
Sierra Vista	18.3 miles	11

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 Q122588668

The 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 899588. 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.