BlockSouth Mill, New Mexico
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southeast Chaves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88230. The Survey maps it on the Bar C Bar Ranch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Bar C Bar Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of South Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 759 acres in total. 3 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Roswell Field Office | SUZANNE |
| 9 June 2010 | Natural | 689 acres | Roswell Field Office | RAMOS |
| 21 April 2010 | Natural | 66 acres | Roswell Field Office | WIGGENS |
| 24 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Carlsbad Field Office | PEPPER |
| 28 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Capitan District | JANICE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hagerman | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Greenfield | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Van | 11.4 miles | 9 | |
| Dexter | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Mossman | 13.6 miles | 8 | |
| Chisum | 15.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Arthur | 16.6 miles | 9 | |
| Midway | 18.5 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikidata item Q122545193 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898600. 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.