Malone, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88061. It lies near Brock Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Eye Peak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Malone within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Redrock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1990 USGS Eagle Eye Peak quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Eagle Eye Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Malone (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 323 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	3
Smoking	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
17 August 1996	Natural	4.0 acres	Gila National Forest	BURRO
27 July 2009	Natural	269 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	U BAR
24 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	YUCCA
23 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
28 June 2019	Natural	48 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	TYRONE
11 June 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Gila National Forest	FOURTEEN
6 May 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM12-90
16 May 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	90-MM13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Gold Hill (historical)

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Malone (historical): 11 prospects, 10 occurrences, 9 past producers, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper. 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
Lone Pine Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver	Prospect
Malone Mines	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	1884, 1885, 1956
Neglected Mine	Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth	Past Producer	1900
Neglected Mine	Copper, Gold, Zinc, Lead	Unknown
Summit	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Prospect	Chalcopyrite, Galena
Summit Deposit	Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Unnamed Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand
White Rock Deposit	Rhenium, Uranium, Thorium, Tantalum	Occurrence	Allanite, Euxenite
Three J's Claims	REE, Silver, Gold	Unknown
White Rock Deposit	REE	Prospect

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Gold Hill (historical)	7.4 miles	10
White Signal	8.6 miles	14
The Pines	9.1 miles	15
Black Hawk (historical)	11.2 miles	12
Oak Grove	11.4 miles	13
Alhambra (historical)	12.3 miles	12
Redrock	14.9 miles	12
Tyrone	16.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 919976. 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.