Red Rock Ranch, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87045. The Survey maps it on the Thoreau NE quadrangle.

Red Rock Ranch within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1886 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Thoreau NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Zuni quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Red Rock Ranch between 2000 and 2018, burning about 2 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
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
26 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	POWER
29 May 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GOLDER
10 March 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Bernalillo District	RODGERS /74 FIRE
10 March 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Bernalillo District	GLASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Red Rock Ranch: 24 past producers, 20 unknowns, 5 producers, 4 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Evelyn Mine	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer	1954, 1955, 1972
San Antone Pit	Limestone, General	Producer	Sedimentary
Alta Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1950, 1951, 1968
Andrews Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Brown Const. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Elkins Thoreau Pit #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Francis Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1953, 1954
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Red Top Mines	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1955
Silver Bit Mines	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1955, 1957

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Prewitt	4.3 miles	17
South Chaves	6.9 miles	16
North Chaves	7.2 miles	16
Smith Lake	8.9 miles	14
Homer C Jones	9.0 miles	17
Borrego Pass	10.2 miles	14
Thoreau	10.4 miles	16
Bluewater	10.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806731. 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.