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North Carmen, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87732. It lies near Tomas Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mora quadrangle.

North Carmen within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

111 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of North Carmen between 1994 and 2020, burning about 569 acres in total. 54 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
Natural54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2020Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas District21-40470263X
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWIMP
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresLas Vegas District20-40320255X
18 September 2012Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHUNTER
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHARLIE
8 August 2002Natural1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFOX
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGARCIA
28 August 2009Natural4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALLSUP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Great Western MineMicaPast Producer1949, 1952
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mora Beryl ProspectBerylliumOccurrence

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Carmen1.0 miles16
Puertocito1.5 miles16
Ledoux2.2 miles16
Abuelo3.2 miles16
Cañon3.4 miles16
Santa Gertrudis (historical)4.0 miles16
Buena Vista4.1 miles15
Canoncito4.5 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122597981The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 909128. 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.