Keota, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It lies near Savage Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Raton quadrangle.

Keota within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1912 USGS Raton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1914 USGS Raton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Raton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Keota between 1993 and 2018, burning about 24,097 acres in total. 12 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2000	Natural	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COAL
9 August 2002	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OLD PASS
9 August 2000	Natural	45 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DUTCHMAN
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	POCKET
24 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LITTLE HORSE
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OLDPASS
5 July 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Las Animas County	not named
21 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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 Keota: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Colfax 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
Brilliant	3.1 miles	11
Raton	4.0 miles	15
Gardiner	4.8 miles	15
Sugarite	5.1 miles	15
Carisbrook	6.1 miles	15
Dillon	6.2 miles	15
Yankee	7.9 miles	15
Van Houten	12.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899692. 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.