French, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Springer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87747. It stands on Dry Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the French quadrangle.

French within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS French quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Springer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of French between 1995 and 2020, burning about 882 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	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
29 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM 425
25 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cimarron District	20-20520260X
7 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HELLS CANYON
13 July 2020	Natural	385 acres	Cimarron District	CIMARRON SOLAR
26 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	I-25
22 May 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Cimarron District	CROSSOVER
29 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FRENCH TRACT
2 April 2007	Smoking	6.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of French: 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materals Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Colfax 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
Maxwell	4.6 miles	11
Toril	6.2 miles	8
Springer	8.0 miles	8
Taylor Springs	10.7 miles	8
Schomberg	11.8 miles	8
Colfax	12.7 miles	11
Miami	15.1 miles	12
Tinaja	15.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898780. 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.