Double Mills, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1963. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88435. The Survey maps it on the Sacaton Draw quadrangle.

Double Mills within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1892 USGS Corazon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Corazon quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sacaton Draw quadrangle1:24000

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 Mills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,357 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
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROAD
8 July 2004	Natural	30 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
8 April 2009	Natural	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BENT RIM
3 April 2018	Smoking	140 acres	Las Vegas District	CORN
30 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	286 acres	Las Vegas District	20-40470381X
15 March 2018	Smoking	700 acres	Las Vegas District	FRONTIER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Double Mills: 1 unknown. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
Los Tanos	5.0 miles	6
Cuervo	6.5 miles	6
Santa Rosa	12.2 miles	7
Newkirk	13.7 miles	6
Agua Negra (historical)	15.9 miles	7
Puerto De Luna	16.9 miles	7
Colonias	17.4 miles	14
Arabella	19.6 miles	6

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 Q122563396

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 898544. 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.