Old Carthage, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Claunch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87832. The Survey maps it on the Canon Agua Buena quadrangle.

Old Carthage within Socorro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1948 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Tucson Spring quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Canon Agua Buena quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Oscura Mountains quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Old Carthage between 1993 and 2003, burning about 1,445 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
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
11 July 1993	Natural	10 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	BELL
3 June 2003	Natural	10 acres	Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge	FITE
16 June 1998	Smoking	2.1 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	MM10-380
2 April 1994	Smoking	1,420 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	STALLION
31 March 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COTTONWOOD
24 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Socorro Field Office	ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Socorro 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 Old Carthage: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials. 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
Name Unknown Pumice Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Pumice
Materials Pit 60-7-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 60-8-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Socorro 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
Tokay	0.7 miles	9
Kinney Wells	1.3 miles	10
Carthage	3.6 miles	9
San Pedro	6.5 miles	10
San Antonio	7.9 miles	10
San Antonito	7.9 miles	10
Laborcita	8.9 miles	10
Bosquecito	9.5 miles	10

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 Q122571164

The 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 896886. 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.