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Fort Wingate, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87316. The Survey maps it on the Fort Wingate quadrangle.

Fort Wingate within McKinley County

On record in Fort Wingate

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Fort Wingate, Subsistence Storehouse, East intersection of Main & Bearline Streets, Gallup, McKinley County, NM
Fort Wingate, Subsistence Storehouse, East intersection of Main & Bearline Streets, Gallup, McKinley County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fort Wingate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2009Natural5.7 acresCibola National ForestFT. WINGATE
19 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National Forest400
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestWINGATE
3 August 1995Smokingunder an acreCibola National ForestRON
12 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestBEAR SPRINGS
4 July 2015Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestTURKEY SPRINGS
18 July 2002Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestFOX
17 July 2005Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestQUAKING ASPEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fort Wingate: 8 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fort Wingate Army Depot WellGeothermalUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Iyanbito Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
State Hwy Pit No 57-35-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in McKinley 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
Perea2.8 miles15
Wingate3.2 miles15
McCune4.9 miles15
Iyanbito5.0 miles14
Sundance5.2 miles16
Church Rock5.5 miles15
Jamestown5.6 miles17
Navajo Wingate Village6.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 928732. 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.