Gran Quivira, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87036. It lies near South Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Gran Quivira quadrangle.

Gran Quivira within Torrance County

On record in Gran Quivira

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Missions of San Buenaventura & San Isidro, New Mexico Highway 14, Mountainair vicinity, Mountainairfederal building survey, 11 photographs

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Gran Quivira quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Gran Quivira between 1998 and 2014, burning about 207 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 July 2005	Natural	6.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GERONIMO
19 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WINDMILL RANCH
26 June 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument	KITERANCH
14 April 2000	Natural	200 acres	Socorro Field Office	MONTEZUMA
27 February 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM 42 FIRE

Every fire recorded in Torrance 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
Chupadera	13.7 miles	7
Deer Canyon	15.0 miles	8
Roundtop (historical)	15.8 miles	7
Abo	18.1 miles	8
Progresso	18.9 miles	7
Mountainair	19.2 miles	10
Scholle	20.2 miles	8
Broncho	20.5 miles	10

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 Q122568634

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 918196. 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.