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Spaceport City, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It lies in ZIP code area 88012. It lies near Baylor Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Organ Peak NW quadrangle. It stands 4,475 feet above sea level.

Spaceport City within Doña Ana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Spaceport City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 404 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Firearms and explosives use1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeRED HAWK
3 July 2013Naturalunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeROCK
7 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeJORNADA
3 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined278 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeJORNADA
20 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficePIPELINE
18 June 2015Natural26 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeJORNADA
12 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMESA GRANDE
30 May 2001Firearms and explosives use1.5 acresLas Cruces Field OfficePOWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Spaceport City: 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
East Dagger Flat ProspectCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Modoc ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Organ DistrictLead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Molybdenum, GoldPast Producer1847
Stephenson-Bennett MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum, Copper, GoldPast Producer1847, 1934
Stevenson - BennettSilver, Lead, ZincProspect
Unnamed Rhyolite ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceRhyolite
Certified Sand Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Highway 70 Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel

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
Organ5.1 miles19
Modoc (historical)6.6 miles18
Doña Ana6.9 miles15
San Ysidro7.4 miles15
Las Cruces7.6 miles15
Boyd7.7 miles18
University Park8.6 miles15
Hill9.3 miles15

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 Q122567633The 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 1805267. 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.