Double Adobes, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the South Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88020. The Survey maps it on the Animas Peak NE quadrangle.

Double Adobes 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.

1918 USGS Animas Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1920 USGS Animas Peak 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 Animas Peak NE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Animas quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Double Adobes between 1993 and 2011, burning about 20,830 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	3
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	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
9 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ANIMAS
1 July 2011	Natural	156 acres	Socorro District	BENNETT
19 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FORTY-FOUR
19 June 1993	Natural	2,028 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	PARK
13 June 2011	Debris and open burning	15,086 acres	Gila National Forest	GODFREY
20 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GRAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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 Double Adobes: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, Tungsten, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper. 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	Recorded
Gillespie Mine	Silver, Copper	Past Producer	1880, 1885
Peace Manganese Prospect	Manganese, Tungsten, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1916, 1943, 1954
Gillespie Mine	Silver	Past Producer

Every working 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
Joe Yarbrough	4.3 miles	14
Middle Wells	4.5 miles	14
Abe Yarbrough	4.8 miles	14
Birchfield	5.2 miles	14
Bene Dunagan	5.9 miles	14
Eakins	6.4 miles	14
Spears	6.7 miles	14
Rock Cabin	8.1 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 Q122551869

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 898542. 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.