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East Grand Plains, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southeast Chaves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88203. The Survey maps it on the South Spring quadrangle.

East Grand Plains within Chaves County

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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of East Grand Plains between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,392 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresBitter Lake National Wildlife RefugeSQUIRREL
19 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCANAL
15 September 2007Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
14 September 1992Natural2.0 acresRoswell Field OfficeWHEY
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRoswell Field OfficeWOODY
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCapitan District20-50550215X
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDARBY
4 August 2018Natural6.0 acresRoswell Field OfficeDARBY 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaves County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East Grand Plains: 7 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Chaves 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
South Spring1.9 miles9
South Spring Acres2.6 miles9
Fairbanks2.8 miles9
Midway2.9 miles9
Mountain View4.6 miles9
Chisum5.2 miles9
Roswell6.1 miles10
Berrendo (historical)9.3 miles10

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 Q122599007The 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 899618. 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.