Piñon, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Southeast Otero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88344. It stands on South Prong Stevens Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pinon quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,060 feet above sea level.

Piñon within Otero County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Pinon quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Alamogordo quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Pinon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Piñon between 2003 and 2015, burning about 5,008 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
7 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DRAW
3 June 2003	Natural	1.5 acres	Lincoln National Forest	PINON
2 June 2011	Natural	4,254 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	WELL
17 May 2004	Natural	6.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	MONUMENT
24 April 2012	Natural	302 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	COX
24 April 2012	Natural	276 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BAR CLAY
16 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	87 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM26
16 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM23

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Chippeway Park

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Piñon: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Otero County Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pinon Site Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
State Hwy Pit No. 60-33-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Otero 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
Avis	6.5 miles	8
Weed	14.3 miles	11
Sacramento	14.9 miles	11
Crisp	15.4 miles	8
Maxon	15.6 miles	11
Timberon	15.9 miles	9
Corner Well	19.0 miles	10
Mayhill	19.2 miles	9

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 Piñon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5791048	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 909714. 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.