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Diamante Mill, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southwest Chaves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88203. The Survey maps it on the Diamond A Ranch quadrangle.

Diamante Mill within Chaves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Diamante Mill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,026 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/undetermined12
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
14 September 1994Naturalunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeO'CONNOR
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeROCKY DRAW
11 August 1999Smokingunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeBORDER
6 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresRoswell Field OfficeMOSSMAN
26 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeCARRYOUT
15 July 2016Natural422 acresRoswell Field OfficeWEST BALDY
7 June 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRoswell Field Office70 WEST
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeBORDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaves County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Diamante Mill: 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Highway Mill2.7 miles10
Missouri Plaza (historical)5.0 miles8
Center Mill5.0 miles10
River Mill5.0 miles10
Mountain View16.7 miles9
Roswell17.3 miles10
South Spring Acres18.8 miles9
Berrendo (historical)18.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122558167The 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 902235. 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.