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Jim Robinson, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the South Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88020. It lies near Cabin Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tank Mountain quadrangle.

Jim Robinson within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Jim Robinson between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,330 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Natural2

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
15 August 2020Natural3.0 acresSocorro District21-30120201X
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined174 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWRATH
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTHREE
30 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSACATON
22 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNEXT'S
7 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionXT
25 June 2015Natural4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionXT
18 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionXT-97

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jim Robinson: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
Animas Valley WellGeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in Hidalgo 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
Spears2.9 miles14
Eakins3.6 miles14
Bene Dunagan4.0 miles14
Rock Cabin4.8 miles14
Middle Wells7.1 miles14
Joe Yarbrough7.4 miles14
Abe Yarbrough8.5 miles14
Double Adobes9.0 miles14

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 Q122567488The 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 899686. 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.