Wimsatt, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Southeast Otero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88317. It lies near Dry Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cloudcroft quadrangle.

Wimsatt within Otero County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1952 USGS Cloudcroft quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Cloudcroft quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Alamogordo quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Cloudcroft quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Wimsatt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,422 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 3 were 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	57
Recreation and ceremony	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	SLASH PIT
22 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	CHIMNEY SPRINGS
2 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	SULLIVAN
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	WILMUTH
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	ROBIN HOOD
6 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	not named
5 August 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	not named
4 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln National Forest	HAY SPRING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wimsatt: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
Cloudcroft C335	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Cloudcroft Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Otero 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
Chippeway Park	4.7 miles	11
Cloudcroft	5.3 miles	11
Hortonville	6.5 miles	11
Silver Springs	9.7 miles	9
Mountain Park	9.7 miles	11
Mayhill	9.9 miles	9
High Rolls	10.2 miles	11
Marcia	11.1 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q122549581

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 912443. 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.