Sundance, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87322. It lies near Fenced-Up Horse Valley. The Survey maps it on the Bread Springs quadrangle.

Sundance within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bread Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Zuni quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Bread Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Sundance between 1992 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
12 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	BEAR SPRINGS
2 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
18 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	FOX
17 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	not named
15 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	WINGATE
4 June 2002	Natural	3.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	DEPOT
29 June 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	FW DEPOT - 1
12 May 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	WINGATE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley 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 Sundance: 6 unknowns, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Geothermal. 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
Fort Wingate Army Depot Well	Geothermal	Unknown
Becenti Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Diamond No. 2 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1952, 1953, 1970
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Diamond #2	Uranium	Past Producer
Diamond #2 Mine	Uranium	Past Producer
Hyde Deposit	Uranium	Unknown
Largo #4	Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in McKinley 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
Bread Springs	4.5 miles	16
Rehoboth	4.8 miles	15
Zuni	5.1 miles	15
Fort Wingate	5.2 miles	16
McCune	5.3 miles	15
Church Rock	5.5 miles	15
White Cliffs	6.2 miles	15
Wingate	6.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 917580. 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.