Faywood, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bayard-Santa Rita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88034. The Survey maps it on the Faywood Station quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Faywood within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1909 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Faywood Station quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Faywood Station quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Faywood Station quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Faywood (historical) between 1992 and 2016, burning about 3,147 acres in total. 4 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	16
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	710 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TWO-C
21 July 2007	Natural	12 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	TAYLOR
11 July 2002	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RICHARD
10 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VICENTE
8 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TURNER
30 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BUDDY
29 June 2007	Natural	54 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	MCCAULEY
28 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM-137 HWY18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Faywood (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
	Faywood Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Whitewater	5.9 miles	12
Big Mill	6.8 miles	8
Dwyer	9.4 miles	9
Hurley	10.9 miles	12
North Hurley	12.4 miles	12
Newton (historical)	13.9 miles	12
Sherman	14.6 miles	8
Bayard	14.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 919965. 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.