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Deer Creek Landing, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Jemez-Zia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87024. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gilman quadrangle.

Deer Creek Landing within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Deer Creek Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,728 acres in total. 114 started naturally. 3 were 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
Natural114
Recreation and ceremony22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPORTER
23 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestDENADO
22 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestDIEGO
16 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forest488
15 September 2017Natural1,022 acresSanta Fe National ForestDEER CREEK
14 September 2003Natural5.5 acresSanta Fe National ForestVENADO
10 September 1996Natural18 acresSanta Fe National ForestSLEEPER
9 August 2006Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Deer Creek Landing: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Jemez Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Pit Number 60-42-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spanish Queen MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1940
Deer Creek ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Pyramid Pumice MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Spanish QueenGold, SilverPast Producer
Tex - N ProspectUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
Gilman2.1 miles18
Jemez Springs4.7 miles24
Porter5.2 miles20
Cañon6.4 miles20
Ponderosa8.1 miles20
O'Neil Landing8.5 miles20
Jemez Pueblo9.4 miles21
Sierra de los Pinos10.8 miles25

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 Q122545227The 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 905691. 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.