Red Bluff, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Loving census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88263. It lies in Red Bluff Draw. The Survey maps it on the Red Bluff quadrangle.

Red Bluff within Eddy 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.

1945 USGS Malaga quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Malaga quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Red Bluff between 1993 and 2018, burning about 305 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
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
19 August 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	19 acres	Roswell Field Office	EXPLOSION
9 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	COOKSEY COMPLEX
4 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	MALAGA COMPLEX
8 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Roswell Field Office	MARKER 8
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	LUNCH
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	SALT WELL
5 April 1994	Smoking	1.5 acres	Roswell Field Office	COOKSEY II
3 April 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Roswell Field Office	REST AREA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Dayton

Every fire recorded in Eddy 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 Red Bluff: 2 unknowns. 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
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Eddy 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
Pierce Canyon Crossing	8.6 miles	5
Malaga	10.5 miles	10
Lookout Crossing	11.3 miles	10
Harroun Crossing	11.5 miles	10
Lookout (historical)	11.6 miles	10
Harkey Crossing	14.0 miles	10
Black River Village	14.3 miles	11
Loving	14.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899867. 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.