Pothook, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hurley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88040. The Survey maps it on the Playas Peak quadrangle.

Pothook within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1918 USGS Hachita quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Playas Peak quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Animas quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pothook between 1992 and 2001, burning about 71 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	4
Natural	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
1 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HURT
4 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SOUTH WELLS
27 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NIGHT
6 June 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BOX
16 June 1993	Natural	60 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	49 ER
2 January 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM34-9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pothook: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Silver, Uranium. 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
Cherry's Mines	Uranium	Occurrence
Hawkins, Kelly, & Butterworth	Copper, Silver, Uranium	Unknown
Wrights Fluorspar	Fluorine-Fluorite	Unknown

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Vista	3.0 miles	14
Old Hachita	5.3 miles	14
Minero	6.9 miles	14
Hachita	10.1 miles	15
Brockman	10.2 miles	9
Separ	16.1 miles	9
Wilna	21.1 miles	9
Gold Hill (historical)	31.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898588. 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.