Pleasant Valley, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the San Jon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88434. The Survey maps it on the San Jon quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pleasant Valley within Quay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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 Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS San Jon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley (historical) between 1994 and 2018, burning about 556 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 July 2017	Natural	10 acres	Las Vegas District	FROST
13 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WOOTEN
19 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	KENT
15 June 2006	Natural	160 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
4 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	106 acres	Las Vegas District	TILLMAN
23 April 2006	Natural	196 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GORDON
25 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Las Vegas District	CRESAP

Every fire recorded in Quay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Quay 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
San Jon	4.5 miles	6
Bard	7.5 miles	5
Wheatland	9.3 miles	6
Allen (historical)	10.4 miles	5
Norton	10.7 miles	6
Porter	12.0 miles	4
Endee	13.6 miles	5
Puerto (historical)	13.6 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 932941. 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.