Corner Well, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Northeast Chaves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. The Survey maps it on the Button Mesa North quadrangle.

Corner Well within Chaves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Button Mesa North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Corner Well between 1993 and 2013, burning about 4,363 acres in total. 4 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	13
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
17 September 2010	Natural	3.0 acres	Capitan District	KIZER #15
7 August 2011	Natural	26 acres	Roswell Field Office	WATTS
28 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JEAN
16 July 2009	Natural	450 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TIPTON
11 July 2011	Natural	30 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NOGEEZI
1 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,280 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TUCKER #1
1 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DAVIS
27 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GLENN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaves County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Corner Well: 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Chaves 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
Vest Wells	3.7 miles	5
Lone Wolf	11.6 miles	5
Robertson Wells	15.9 miles	5
Beatty Wells	17.9 miles	5
Boaz	19.2 miles	5
Elkins	22.8 miles	8
Campbell	30.1 miles	8
Olive	30.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898536. 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.