Deer Creek Wells, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the South Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88040. It stands on Birch Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Luis Pass quadrangle.

Deer Creek Wells within Hidalgo 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.

1917 USGS Antelope Wells quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1919 USGS Antelope Wells quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS San Luis Pass quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Alamo Hueco Mountains quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Deer Creek Wells between 1992 and 2007, burning about 15,132 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

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 September 2000	Natural	198 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LITTLE LYNCH
2 July 2007	Natural	2,400 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
19 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	INDIAN
15 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6,600 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROUGH
17 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PUT OUT
12 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4,880 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LYNCH
22 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WHITE WATER
18 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CHAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Deer

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
Deer	4.8 miles	14
High Lonesome Wells	7.1 miles	14
Antelope Wells	11.3 miles	14
Cloverdale	12.7 miles	14
Alamo Hueco	14.0 miles	13
Double Adobes	14.9 miles	14
Birchfield	16.0 miles	14
Abe Yarbrough	17.1 miles	14

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 Q122554690

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 899603. 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.