Halls Peak, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87734. It lies near Gallinas Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Ocate quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Halls Peak within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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
1966 USGS Ocate quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Ocate quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

76 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Halls Peak (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 564 acres in total. 50 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	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2000	Natural	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BLATTMAN
27 September 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TIGER2
25 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	CALDWELL
7 August 2012	Natural	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WHITE
29 August 2002	Natural	35 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BORDER
22 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OCATE MESA
21 August 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Cimarron District	AGULIA
10 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GARCIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora 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 Halls Peak (historical): 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Laizy Daisy	Uranium	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mora 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
Los LeFebres	3.0 miles	11
Ocate	4.2 miles	11
Los Huerros	5.3 miles	11
Naranjos	6.9 miles	8
Guadalupita	10.8 miles	10
Los Cocas	11.0 miles	10
Ojo Feliz	12.2 miles	11
Los Cisneros	13.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915043. 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.