Silver Springs, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Mescalero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88340. It lies near Morgan Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Elk-Silver quadrangle.

Silver Springs within Otero 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.

1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Elk-Silver quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Elk-Silver quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Silver Springs between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3,636 acres in total. 36 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
Natural	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	14
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
5 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	CHARLEY
5 August 2000	Natural	5.5 acres	Mescalero Agency	PINE TREE
2 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	TELEPHONE
5 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	HARLEY
3 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	WTELEPHONE
28 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	ELK
21 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	CASARES
2 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mescalero Agency	NCOOLEY

Every fire recorded in Otero 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
Mescalero	9.1 miles	10
Wimsatt	9.7 miles	11
Whitetail	9.7 miles	8
Blazers Mill	9.7 miles	10
Cloudcroft	11.6 miles	11
Bent	13.2 miles	10
Hortonville	13.6 miles	11
Carrizo	13.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 919932. 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.