Fort Stanton, New Mexico

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Fort Stanton Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2000 · 0.1 miles away
• Fort Stanton Administration Buildinglisted 1973 · 0.2 miles away

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

• Fort Stanton, Guard House, State Highway 220, Fort Stantonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fort Stanton, Gymnasium, State Highway 220, Fort Stantonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Fort Stanton, Merchant Marine Cemetery, State Highway 220, Fort Stantonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fort Stanton, Museum, State Highway 220, Fort Stantonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fort Stanton, Quartermaster's Quarters, State Highway 220, Fort Stantonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fort Stanton, Stable, State Highway 220, Fort Stantonfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Fort Stanton, State Highway 220, Fort Stantonfederal building survey, 2 photographs

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.

• 1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Fort Stanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000
• 2004 USGS Fort Stanton quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Fort Stanton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,500 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Capitan
• Coalora
• Double Crossing

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Stanton: 2 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.

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 906337. 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.