Sunny Side, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cimarron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87714. It stands on La Maquina Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rayado quadrangle. It stands 6,384 feet above sea level.

Sunny Side within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Springer quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Rayado quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Sunny Side between 1993 and 2019, burning about 283 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	7
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ZAMORA
8 July 2003	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RAYADO
25 July 2017	Natural	30 acres	Cimarron District	UU BAR
25 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ORTEGA
15 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MESA
12 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RAYADO
1 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HAMPTON
1 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SUNNYSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax 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
Rayado	1.4 miles	12
Sweetwater (historical)	5.6 miles	12
Miami	5.8 miles	12
Cimarron	10.2 miles	11
Six Mile Gate	15.8 miles	11
Springer	16.3 miles	8
Colmor	16.6 miles	8
Toril	16.8 miles	8

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 Q7640728

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 899934. 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.