Dog Canyon Estates, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Alamogordo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88310. The Survey maps it on the Deadman Canyon quadrangle.

Dog Canyon Estates within Otero County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1950 USGS Escondido Canyon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Alamogordo quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Deadman Canyon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dog Canyon Estates between 1993 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Capitan District	MM 56
17 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	not named
26 June 2004	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	BURNT RIDGE
17 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	FAIRCHILD
15 June 2001	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SOUTHLAND
9 May 2001	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	DOG CANYON
30 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MEADOWLAND
7 April 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Capitan District	20-51060411X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dog Canyon Estates: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dog Canyon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
State Hwy Pit No 58-54-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
State Hwy Pit No. 75-3-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Otero 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
Valmont	1.7 miles	9
Boles Acres	4.6 miles	13
Dunes	5.9 miles	9
Omlee	6.5 miles	13
Monista (historical)	8.9 miles	10
Alamogordo	10.7 miles	12
Marcia	11.5 miles	11
Point of Sands	12.7 miles	10

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 Q122559076

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 929125. 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.