Sunshine, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Questa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87556. The Survey maps it on the Sunshine quadrangle.

Sunshine within Taos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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
1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Sunshine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Wheeler Peak quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sunshine between 1995 and 2017, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
9 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	MM 34
8 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	EL RITO
14 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Albuquerque District Office	LEE TRAIL
28 April 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BUENA VISTA 2
16 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Cimarron District	BUENA VISTA RD.
27 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cimarron District	LATE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sunshine: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Sunshine Valley	1.0 miles	9
Buena Vista	4.6 miles	9
El Rito	4.9 miles	9
Cerro	6.4 miles	9
Questa	10.0 miles	9
Costilla	10.8 miles	10
Amalia	11.9 miles	9
Moly	12.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902362. 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.