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Diener, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies near Post Office Flat. The Survey maps it on the Post Office Flat quadrangle.

Diener within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Diener between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,727 acres in total. 109 started naturally. 1 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
Natural109
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestALLEN
30 September 2000Natural2.0 acresCibola National ForestAUTUMN
21 September 2000Natural1.0 acresCibola National Forest425
20 September 2000Natural2.0 acresCibola National ForestOBSERVER
15 September 1994Natural4.0 acresCibola National Forestnot named
11 September 1994Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
1 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestLACKEY RIDGE
9 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestDIENER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Diener: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silica. 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
Ingerson DepositUraniumUnknown
Mirabal MineFluorine-Fluorite, SilicaPast Producer1918
Mirabal Fluorspar MineFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer1918, 1940, 1952
Mirabel Mine 1946Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer1918, 1940, 1952

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Copperton2.3 miles17
Aragon4.5 miles17
Sawyer6.4 miles17
Stoneridge9.1 miles17
Bluewater9.3 miles19
Tinaja9.7 miles17
Paxton Springs (historical)9.9 miles22
Pueblito9.9 miles17

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 Q122588919The 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 905759. 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.