Nolan, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87752. The Survey maps it on the Colmor quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Nolan within Mora 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
1964 USGS Colmor quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Springer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Nolan (historical) between 1994 and 2016, burning about 918 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/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
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
27 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
11 August 2007	Natural	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
24 July 2016	Natural	360 acres	Cimarron District	404
20 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	500 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	REDRIVER
26 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RUNAWAY
13 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SHUTZ
9 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cimarron District	COLMOR
7 May 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LEVY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Watrous

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Nolan (historical): 12 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
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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 Mora 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
Levy	5.5 miles	8
Wagon Mound	11.0 miles	8
Naranjos	16.6 miles	8
Ciruela	16.6 miles	13
Ocate	20.0 miles	11
Optimo	20.3 miles	13
Halls Peak (historical)	22.0 miles	11
Los LeFebres	23.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915053. 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.