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Dwyer, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Bayard-Santa Rita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88034. The Survey maps it on the Dwyer quadrangle. It stands 5,200 feet above sea level.

Dwyer within Grant County

On record in Dwyer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Dwyer between 1993 and 2009, burning about 1,475 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Natural1
Smoking1

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
30 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNAN
12 June 2006Smoking1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
12 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBROWN
10 June 2009Natural1,120 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeTAYLOR MT
1 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSIMON
10 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHARLEY
11 February 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSIMON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Dwyer: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 3PerliteOccurrence
Materials Pit 58-117-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 58-120-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Big Mill6.9 miles8
Sherman8.2 miles8
San Juan9.4 miles9
Faywood (historical)9.4 miles13
San Lorenzo12.8 miles9
Casas Adobes13.1 miles9
Whitewater14.5 miles12
Hurley14.9 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on DwyerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705976The 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 920591. 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.