Koehler, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies near Ox Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Koehler quadrangle.

Koehler within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1915 USGS Koehler quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Koehler quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Koehler quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Koehler between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,445 acres in total. 16 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	OX
2 September 2002	Natural	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CURTIS
7 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SCHOMBERG
7 July 2005	Natural	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CROW
5 July 2005	Natural	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	T.O. EAST
5 July 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	T.O. WEST
22 July 2011	Natural	25 acres	Cimarron District	CROW
9 June 2001	Natural	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PRAIRIE

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 Koehler: 3 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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
Van Houten	4.5 miles	12
Hebron	8.1 miles	8
Schomberg	9.4 miles	8
Capitan Hill	9.6 miles	11
Dawson (historical)	9.8 miles	11
Loretta (historical)	10.0 miles	11
Colfax	11.8 miles	11
Dillon	12.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899697. 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.