White Cliffs, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87311. It lies near Padre Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Church Rock quadrangle.

White Cliffs within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1886 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Church Rock quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of White Cliffs between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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	1
Debris and open burning	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
15 June 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SPRNGSTD-1
11 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bernalillo District	20-61770642X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of White Cliffs: 21 unknowns, 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Geothermal. 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
Fort Wingate Army Depot Well	Geothermal	Unknown
Hogback Mine	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer	1950, 1951, 1960
Becenti Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Diamond No. 2 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1952, 1953, 1970
Foutz No. 1 and No. 2 Mines	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1953, 1954
Foutz No. 3 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1953, 1955
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in McKinley 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
Navajo Wingate Village	0.5 miles	15
Church Rock	0.9 miles	15
McCune	1.5 miles	15
Zuni	1.8 miles	15
Rehoboth	2.8 miles	15
Wingate	4.0 miles	15
Perea	5.5 miles	15
Sundance	6.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806737. 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.