Wheatland, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the San Jon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88120. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle. It stands 4,764 feet above sea level.

Wheatland within Quay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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 Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Wheatland between 1993 and 2019, burning about 335 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
22 July 2011	Natural	80 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FURY
21 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RACHEAL
6 December 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GRADY
30 November 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	60 acres	Las Vegas District	20-40380290X
17 January 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Las Vegas District	19-40440273X
16 January 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COUNTY LINE

Every fire recorded in Quay County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Wheatland: 6 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Quay 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
Pleasant Valley (historical)	9.3 miles	6
Puerto (historical)	9.7 miles	6
Norton	11.0 miles	6
Plain (historical)	11.4 miles	7
Cowan (historical)	12.6 miles	7
Allen (historical)	13.5 miles	5
San Jon	13.8 miles	6
Forrest	15.3 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Wheatland	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7991875	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898611. 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.