Pierce Canyon Crossing, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Loving census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88263. It lies near Pierce Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Pierce Canyon quadrangle.

Pierce Canyon Crossing within Eddy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Pierce Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Jal quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pierce Canyon Crossing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 36 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
16 July 1994	Natural	6.5 acres	Roswell Field Office	KELLY
1 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	BUCKET
10 June 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Roswell Field Office	NATURAL
21 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Capitan District	19-51180438X
25 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	CHALLENGER
20 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	CEDAR
12 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	KYEEMO
21 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	QUEEN LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Malaga

Every fire recorded in Eddy 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 Pierce Canyon Crossing: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine. 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
Malaga Bend Experimental Salinity Alleviation Project	Bromine	Past Producer	1963
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Eddy 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
Harroun Crossing	5.2 miles	10
Malaga	5.5 miles	10
Lookout (historical)	7.7 miles	10
Lookout Crossing	7.9 miles	10
Red Bluff	8.6 miles	10
Loving	9.1 miles	11
Harkey Crossing	12.1 miles	10
Black River Village	14.6 miles	11

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 Q122572633

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 899847. 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.