Ponderosa Heights, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Ruidoso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88345. It lies near Brady Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ruidoso quadrangle.

Ponderosa Heights within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

273 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Ponderosa Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,597 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 14 were 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	79
Natural	75
Recreation and ceremony	46
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Other causes	4
Smoking	3
Fireworks	2

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
5 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	120 CAMPFIRE
27 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DAM
2 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	RUFUS
10 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SUN
6 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	KRAUSE
5 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MC CARTY
5 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	not named
25 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	PERK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Ponderosa Heights: 7 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Silver, Gold, Lead, 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
Mccrory Prospect	Lead	Prospect
Mescalero Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Gypsum
Silver Contact Claims 1980's	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	1900, 1905, 1939
Silver Plume Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Unknown
State Hwy Pit No 60-76-S	Stone	Unknown
Tom's Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1992
Graham Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Jim Strong Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Ruidoso	1.0 miles	10
Alpine Cellars Village	2.1 miles	10
Hollywood	3.0 miles	10
Alto	3.7 miles	11
Ruidoso Downs	4.3 miles	9
Sierra Vista	4.5 miles	11
Sun Valley	4.7 miles	11
Villa Madonna	5.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 909789. 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.