Kiowa, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It stands on Kiowa Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Kiowa quadrangle.

Kiowa within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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
1971 USGS Kiowa quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kiowa between 1996 and 2016, burning about 1,202 acres in total. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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	340 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BUTTES
7 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CRATER
24 July 2016	Natural	63 acres	Cimarron District	PALO BLANCO
20 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LARK
5 April 2002	Natural	345 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GR.MNT.COMPL
27 April 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
13 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	450 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PALO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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 Kiowa: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Pumice, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cook Hill	Pumice	Unknown
Hennigan Ranch Pit	Limestone, General	Producer	Caliche
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
Palo Blanco (historical)	10.6 miles	8
Chico	12.4 miles	8
Tafoya (historical)	14.6 miles	8
Tinaja	15.0 miles	8
Hebron	19.9 miles	8
Schomberg	20.8 miles	8
Farley	21.1 miles	8
Carisbrook	22.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902281. 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.