Eagle Hill, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. The Survey maps it on the Milnesand NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Eagle Hill within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Milnesand NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Hill (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,148 acres in total. 9 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	15
Natural	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	EOR
25 August 2016	Natural	23 acres	Capitan District	WEST 8
19 August 2019	Natural	20 acres	Capitan District	20-50520200X
19 August 2019	Natural	209 acres	Capitan District	20-50510199X
17 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	350 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DAVIS
10 August 2019	Natural	3.0 acres	Capitan District	20-50390175X
31 July 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Capitan District	ZEE
2 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TUCKER #02

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Eagle Hill (historical): 12 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
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
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 Roosevelt 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
Milnesand	6.5 miles	6
New Hope (historical)	9.4 miles	6
Pep	14.0 miles	5
Home Place Well	14.8 miles	5
Bluit	14.8 miles	6
Richland	15.3 miles	5
Garrison	18.7 miles	5
Red Lake (historical)	19.4 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920792. 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.