Fort Selden, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Doña Ana-Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88007. It stands on Lucero Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Leasburg quadrangle.

Fort Selden within Doña Ana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1891 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1941 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Leasburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Leasburg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fort Selden between 1992 and 2013, burning about 173 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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	8
Natural	5
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 July 1994	Natural	10 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	RIBLADOS
15 June 1994	Smoking	1.0 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	DONA ANA
9 May 1992	Natural	12 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	LOOKOUT PK
12 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
1 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.3 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	RADIUM SPRINGS
8 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	SCOUT
3 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	JORNADA
2 April 2000	Natural	under an acre	Las Cruces Field Office	RIO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Fort Selden: 9 occurrences, 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zeolites. 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	Recorded
Foster Canyon	Zeolites	Occurrence	Clinoptilolite
Garcia	Iron	Occurrence
Materials Pit 65-5-S	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence	Limestone
Garcia	Manganese	Occurrence	Pyrolusite, Wad
Gilliland	Manganese	Occurrence
Gilliland Claims	Manganese	Occurrence	Pyrolusite, Wad
Piedra Blanca Claim	Manganese	Prospect	1940
Materials Pit 58-35-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 59-99-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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
Radium Springs	1.4 miles	12
Leasburg	2.6 miles	16
Hill	5.0 miles	15
Doña Ana	8.4 miles	15
Tonuco	8.6 miles	12
San Ysidro	10.6 miles	15
Picacho	11.5 miles	15
Picacho Hills	11.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920597. 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.