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Silver Acres, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Silver City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88061. It lies near Maudes Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle.

Silver Acres within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Silver Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,696 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined56
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning8
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
6 August 2011Natural177 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRUNNING IRON
5 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCACTUS
31 August 2011Natural36 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBOSTON HILL
11 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBOBS
9 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBUSY
9 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMAUDES
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSILVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Silver Acres: 27 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, Manganese, Iron, 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
Baltic MineSilver, Lead, Manganese, Copper, GoldPast Producer1872, 1875, 1939
Chloride Flat MinesSilver, Manganese, Iron, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer1872, 1875, 1944
Grand Central GroupLead, SilverPast Producer
Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Little Burro Mountains Kaolin DepositKaolinOccurrenceKaolin
Lone Mountain Manganese MineManganese, SilverPast Producer1885, 1955
Lone Mountain MinesSilver, LeadPast Producer1871, 1884
Silver City DistrictSilver, Zinc, Copper, Iron, LeadPast Producer1870
Silver Spot GroupManganese, Iron, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unnamed QuarriesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tyrone2.5 miles13
Silver City2.9 miles14
Newton (historical)3.7 miles12
Arenas Valley6.1 miles13
Central6.6 miles13
Santa Clara6.9 miles13
North Hurley7.0 miles12
Little Walnut Village7.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 900251. 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.