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Grass Mountain Summer Home Area, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87573. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cowles quadrangle.

Grass Mountain Summer Home Area within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Grass Mountain Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,828 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony45
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2

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
9 September 2002Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestWILLOW
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRACT
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLINK
1 September 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestRIDGE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLINKS
4 August 1992Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
3 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestDAVIS
20 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSPIRIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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 Grass Mountain Summer Home Area: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Bismuth, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Pecos MineZinc, Lead, BismuthOccurrenceReplacement
Pecos MineZinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Willow Creek District-New MexicoZinc, Lead, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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
Cowles1.0 miles17
Winsor Creek Summer Home1.4 miles17
Geronimo1.7 miles17
Holy Ghost3.4 miles17
Tererro4.1 miles16
Tres Lagunas5.5 miles16
El Macho8.8 miles16
Upper La Posada10.4 miles16

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 Q122546889The 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 913690. 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.