Perryville, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cimarron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87718. It stands on Tolby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Touch-Me-Not Mountain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Perryville within Colfax County

On record in Perryville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Eagle Nest Damlisted 1979 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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
1955 USGS Ute Park quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Wheeler Peak quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Touch-Me-Not Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

40 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Perryville (historical) between 1996 and 2019, burning about 2,632 acres in total. 26 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COORS
26 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	TOLBY
26 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BLACKJACK
6 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	HORSESHOE
5 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SQUASH BLOSSOM
5 July 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLEAR
29 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MORENO
28 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TOLBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Perryville (historical): 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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
Iron Mountains Prospects	Gold, Copper, Iron	Past Producer	Contact Metasomatic
Legal Tender Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Ajax Mine	Gold, Iron	Past Producer
Iron Mountain Prospect	Gold, Iron	Past Producer
Elizabeth-Baldy	Gold	Past Producer	1866

Every working recorded in Colfax 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
Eagle Nest	2.3 miles	11
Virginia City	3.1 miles	13
Idlewild	4.2 miles	11
Lakeview Pines	4.5 miles	11
Val Verde Ski Area	5.2 miles	11
Ute Park	6.2 miles	13
Elizabethtown	6.5 miles	11
Deep Tunnel (historical)	7.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902068. 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.