Pot Creek, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Taos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87557. It stands on Rito de la Olla. The Survey maps it on the Ranchos De Taos quadrangle.

Pot Creek within Taos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Ranchos De Taos quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Ranchos De Taos quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Pot Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 653 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	45
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2001	Natural	4.5 acres	Carson National Forest	#SEVEN
6 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	56 acres	Taos Field Office	US HILL
30 September 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	BEAR WALLOW
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	TWO PINES
12 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Carson National Forest	VIEW POINT
7 August 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Carson National Forest	TETILLAS
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Taos Field Office	MIRANDA
31 August 2009	Natural	16 acres	Carson National Forest	MCGAFFEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pot Creek: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Clay. 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
	Cueva Blanca Mine	Kaolin, Clay	Past Producer
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Vallecitos	2.3 miles	10
Talpa	4.8 miles	10
Llano Quemado	5.5 miles	10
Ranchos de Taos	6.1 miles	10
Rio Pueblo	7.1 miles	11
Rock Wall	7.2 miles	11
Las Mochas	7.8 miles	11
Vadito	7.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 912621. 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.