Old Horse Springs, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Quemado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87821. The Survey maps it on the Horse Mountain West quadrangle.

Old Horse Springs within Catron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1918 USGS Pelona quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Horse Mountain West quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Tularosa Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Horse Mountain West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Old Horse Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,446 acres in total. 10 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 August 2000	Natural	10 acres	Gila National Forest	QUARTER
14 August 1992	Natural	10 acres	Gila National Forest	not named
1 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	JACKALOPE
17 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BOSQUET
8 June 2000	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	AZTEC
6 June 2006	Natural	5,216 acres	Gila National Forest	WILSON
5 June 2000	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	CELSO
28 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PATTERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catron 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
New Horse Springs	2.1 miles	12
Fullerton (historical)	9.2 miles	11
Greens Gap	12.6 miles	11
Mangas	16.8 miles	10
Aragon	16.8 miles	14
Gutierrezville	18.6 miles	7
Apache Creek	22.0 miles	13
Cruzville	24.6 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Old Horse Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7084242	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 909340. 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.