Dawson, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies near Rail Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle. It stands 6,339 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dawson within Colfax County

On record in Dawson

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

On the National Register 1 record

Dawson Cemeterylisted 1992

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Cimarron quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Dawson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Dawson (historical) between 2000 and 2017, burning about 499 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13

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
6 August 2001	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DAWSON
31 August 2012	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STOUT
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RAIL
9 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	METAL BRIDGE
21 July 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SALTPETER
6 June 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STOUT
5 June 2007	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
28 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CHIMNEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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
Capitan Hill	0.4 miles	11
Loretta (historical)	1.4 miles	11
Colfax	5.0 miles	11
Koehler	9.8 miles	11
Six Mile Gate	11.4 miles	11
Cimarron	13.0 miles	11
Van Houten	14.2 miles	12
Schomberg	14.7 miles	8

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 Dawson (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2201125	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 902230. 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.