Sun Valley, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Ruidoso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88312. It lies near Vickers Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Angus quadrangle.

Sun Valley within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Angus quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Angus quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Sun Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,704 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 8 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
Natural	72
Recreation and ceremony	56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
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 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	120 CAMPFIRE
30 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WOLF
29 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	SKYLINE
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PASO
22 September 2003	Natural	7.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	GEORGE
2 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	DRY MILLS
2 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	RUFUS
10 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	CREST TRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sun Valley: 5 prospects, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hope Prospect	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Mayberry Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Mccrory Prospect	Lead	Prospect
Mineral Farm Prospect	Zinc, Lead, Copper	Unknown
Rock No 1	Copper, Silver	Prospect
Silver Contact Claims 1980's	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	1900, 1905, 1939
Silver Plume Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Unknown
Tom's Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1992
Bonito Canyon	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Sierra Vista	0.6 miles	11
Alto	0.9 miles	11
Villa Madonna	2.3 miles	11
Angus	2.5 miles	11
Alpine Cellars Village	2.7 miles	10
Bonito	3.0 miles	11
Ponderosa Heights	4.7 miles	10
Ruidoso	5.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 911485. 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.