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Royce, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clayton North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88415. The Survey maps it on the Royce quadrangle.

Royce within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Royce between 1996 and 2020, burning about 7,931 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 July 2016Natural1.0 acresCimarron DistrictHORRANGO
16 July 2019Natural9.0 acresCimarron District20-20160079X
15 July 2010Natural1.1 acresCimarron DistrictROYCE
10 July 2011Natural299 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionENSZ
27 June 2017Naturalunder an acreCimarron DistrictCARTER
13 June 2018Naturalunder an acreCimarron DistrictRABBIT EAR
7 May 2017Natural8.0 acresCimarron DistrictCARTER
4 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCimarron DistrictROCKLEDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Royce: 7 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit #64 27 SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit #64 28 SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit #64 30 FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Union 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
Clayton7.3 miles8
Mount Dora9.6 miles8
Tate (historical)13.4 miles7
Seneca13.9 miles9
Bates14.4 miles8
Thomas16.7 miles7
Grenville17.6 miles8
Old Moses18.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 910466. 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.