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Prewitt, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87045. It lies near Casamero Draw. The Survey maps it on the Prewitt quadrangle.

Prewitt within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

An old, abandoned concrete building whose uses are unclear still stands in the tiny, unincorporated community of Prewitt, in western New Mexico
An old, abandoned concrete building whose uses are unclear still stands in the tiny, unincorporated community of Prewitt, in western New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Prewitt between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPOWER
19 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeCANYON
13 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
24 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCibola National ForestGATE
29 May 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGOLDER
18 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresBernalillo District19-60820398X
5 December 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBernalillo District21-60900322X
5 December 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBernalillo District21-60890321X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Prewitt: 16 past producers, 15 unknowns, 5 producers, 5 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Francis MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1953, 1954
Red Top MinesUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
Elkins Prewitt PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State Hwy Pit No. 62-21-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 78-36-SStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brown Const. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
C & E Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Wylie Bros. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Andrews Ranch MineUraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prewitt in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Flash FloodPrewitt$8,000Lori Drive just northeast of Bluewater Lake was washed out due to heavy rains.
July 2019Flash FloodPrewitt-NM-412 south of Prewitt to Bluewater Lake was closed due to swift flood waters crossing the roadway.

Every storm recorded in McKinley 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Red Rock Ranch4.3 miles15
Homer C Jones5.0 miles17
South Chaves6.0 miles16
North Chaves6.4 miles16
Bluewater7.8 miles16
Thoreau9.9 miles16
Smith Lake12.1 miles14
Ambrosia Lake12.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 909850. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.