Telegraph, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88028. It stands on Telegraph Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Mangas Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Telegraph within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Cliff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1990 USGS Mangas Springs quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Mangas Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Telegraph (historical) between 1996 and 2016, burning about 35 acres in total. 3 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	BIRD
14 July 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	CLARKS PK
27 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	SCHOOLHOUSE
23 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
10 March 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
26 February 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gila National Forest	DITCH
26 February 1996	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Gila National Forest	SLIDE

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Telegraph (historical): 11 prospects, 9 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver, 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
German Mine No 2	Zinc, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Hard Pan Mine	Zinc, Copper, Lead	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Lead Mountain	Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese	Prospect	Vein
Simpson Prospect	Manganese	Prospect	Vein
Telegraph Mine	Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese	Past Producer	1881
Jennie Mines	Copper	Occurrence	1950
Jennie Mines	Copper	Prospect
Name Unknown, Uranium Deposits	Uranium	Prospect	Vein
Prince Albert No. 1	Uranium	Prospect
Slate Creek	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Alhambra (historical)	7.3 miles	12
Black Hawk (historical)	7.4 miles	12
Mangas Springs	7.4 miles	11
Redrock	8.8 miles	12
Riverside	10.7 miles	10
The Pines	11.4 miles	15
Cliff	12.7 miles	10
Gila	13.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 925106. 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.