The Pines, New Mexico

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.

• 1909 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Wind Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1951 USGS Wind Mountain quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Wind Mountain quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
• 1999 USGS Wind Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of The Pines between 1993 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 8 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Black Hawk (historical)
• Dwyer

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of The Pines: 37 past producers, 20 prospects, 10 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Grant County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 929234. 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.