Silver City, New Mexico

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Grant County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 15 shown

• 209 W Broadwaylisted 1978
• H. B. Ailman Houselisted 1975
• Bowden Halllisted 1988
• Bullard Hotellisted 1988
• Chihuahua Hill Historic Districtlisted 1984
• Fleming Halllisted 1988
• Graham Gymnasiumlisted 1988
• Heating Plantlisted 1988
• Light Halllisted 1988
• Ritch Halllisted 1988
• Silver City Water Works Buildinglisted 1984
• Silver City Woman's Clublisted 2003

Every listing in Grant County

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Commercial Building, Silver Cityfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Commercial Building, Silver Cityfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Silver City Museum, 312 West Broadway Street, Silver Cityfederal building survey, 2 photographs

Silver City grew from 1,800 to 9,704 between 1880 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1909 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000

1 chapter about Silver City from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,308 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 4 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Silver Acres
• Tyrone
• Newton (historical)
• Arenas Valley
• Bayard
• Central

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Silver City: 18 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Manganese, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Grant County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 38 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 18 hail, 14 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.

Every storm recorded in Grant County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 334 issues, 2,908 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 10 issues spread across its run from 1892 to 1898, 12,599 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920706. 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.