Sweetwater, 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 87729. The Survey maps it on the Rayado quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sweetwater 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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 18,323 acres in total. 18 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	1
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
29 August 2002	Natural	595 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GOAT
25 August 2019	Natural	33 acres	Cimarron District	20-20420206X
13 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Cimarron District	RAYADO MESA
1 August 2003	Natural	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SWEETWATER
8 July 2003	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RAYADO
25 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ORTEGA
21 July 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40250127X
2 July 2020	Natural	25 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40020012X

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
Sunny Side	5.6 miles	12
Rayado	5.9 miles	12
Miami	7.8 miles	12
Colmor	14.6 miles	8
Cimarron	15.7 miles	11
Black Lake Resorts	17.5 miles	14
Springer	17.7 miles	8
Black Lake	18.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902689. 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.