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Jamestown, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87347. It lies near Fourmile Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ciniza quadrangle. 317 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,041 feet above sea level.

Jamestown within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Jamestown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2009Natural5.7 acresCibola National ForestFT. WINGATE
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestWINGATE
3 August 1995Smokingunder an acreCibola National ForestRON
23 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBAROMETER
22 August 2002Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestFOR MILE
1 August 2001Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestFOSTER
5 July 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
29 July 1994Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Jamestown: 8 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Pumice. 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
San Antonio No. 1- 8 Placer ClaimsPumicePast Producer
Proj. Adap 8-35-0019-01StoneUnknown
Rock PitStoneUnknown
Brown Const. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Iyanbito PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Iyanbito Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No 57-35-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in McKinley 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
Ciniza1.2 miles17
South Guam3.1 miles17
North Guam3.5 miles16
Iyanbito3.7 miles14
Coolidge4.5 miles16
Perea4.7 miles15
Fort Wingate5.6 miles16
Wingate6.2 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on JamestownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705996The 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 2806722. 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.