Dillon, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It lies near Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Clifton House quadrangle.

Dillon within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1912 USGS Raton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1914 USGS Raton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Clifton House quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Dillon between 1996 and 2020, burning about 20,979 acres in total. 12 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
30 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WILLOW TREE
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
9 August 2002	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OLD PASS
21 August 2003	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HARTMAN
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OLDPASS
22 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HWY 64/87
21 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SPRUCE CANYON
19 July 2010	Natural	6.0 acres	Cimarron District	COAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Dillon: 6 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Graphite Prospect	Graphite	Occurrence
Standard Graphite Co Prospect	Graphite	Prospect
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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
Gardiner	1.9 miles	15
Raton	2.8 miles	15
Carisbrook	5.7 miles	15
Keota	6.2 miles	15
Sugarite	6.7 miles	15
Brilliant	7.5 miles	11
Van Houten	7.7 miles	12
Yankee	8.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898541. 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.