Frontier Post, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Artesia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88210. The Survey maps it on the Dayton quadrangle.

Frontier Post within Eddy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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 Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Artesia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

58 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Frontier Post between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,124 acres in total. 1 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	37
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	PATO
19 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Capitan District	KINCAID RANCH ROAD
18 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Roswell Field Office	4MILE
25 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HUMMINGBIRD ROAD
2 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	HAVEN HILL
8 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	LAKE BED
3 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
12 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HAVEN HILL COMPLEX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eddy County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Frontier Post: 4 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
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Eddy 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
Dayton	3.0 miles	9
Atoka	5.6 miles	8
Seven Rivers	6.6 miles	8
Illinois Camp	9.8 miles	10
Artesia	10.6 miles	8
Riverside	11.4 miles	9
Barber Crossing	14.0 miles	11
Avalon	15.6 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122546554

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899640. 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.