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Coyote, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Carrizozo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88301. The Survey maps it on the Lone Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,810 feet above sea level.

Coyote within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Coyote between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,692 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/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHWY 54-MM134
6 July 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCapitan DistrictBARHEAD
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCapitan District21-50050034X
26 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionINDIAN
2 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM136
18 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOYOTE
15 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHAFER
22 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Coyote: 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eagle Nest No 1&2 White Oaks DistThorium, UraniumOccurrence
House Mines PrinceIron, UraniumOccurrenceGypsum, Magnetite
Julia Ann ProspectFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Little Mack MineGold, Silver, TungstenPast Producer1885, 1940
Materials PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
AsbestosIronOccurrence
Black KnightIronProspect
Carolyn OIronProspect
CindyIronOccurrence
ClaritaIronOccurrence

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Robsart5.3 miles14
Largo6.4 miles11
White Oaks6.4 miles15
Manchester (historical)7.9 miles14
Cooper8.4 miles11
Jicarilla9.4 miles10
Ancho9.7 miles9
Reventon9.8 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on CoyoteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705969The 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 905466. 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.