Union Hill, 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
• 1937 USGS Santa Rita quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Santa Rita quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Santa Rita quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Santa Rita Mine quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
• 1999 USGS Santa Rita Mine quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Union Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 1 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:

• Fierro
• Hanover
• Turnerville
• Wimsattville
• Ivanhoe (historical)
• Santa Rita (historical)

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 133 workings within 5 miles of Union Hill: 106 past producers, 15 prospects, 8 producers, 3 plants. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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 911957. 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.