Butterfield City Number 1 Colonia, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the El Paso East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79938. The Survey maps it on the Helms West Well quadrangle.

Butterfield City Number 1 Colonia within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1908 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1939 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Helms West Well quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Helms West Well quadrangle1:24000
1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Helms West Well quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Butterfield City Number 1 Colonia: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General. 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
Hueco Pit	Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General	Producer
Paisano Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Jobe Quarry No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Paisano Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
R.O.H.K. Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence	Carnotite
Unnamed Prospects	Uranium	Occurrence	Carnotite

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Butterfield	0.2 miles	17
Butterfield City Number 3 Colonia	0.2 miles	17
Butterfield City Number 2 Colonia	0.4 miles	17
Butterfield City Number 4 Colonia	2.1 miles	17
Mountain Meadows Estates Colonia	2.3 miles	17
Hueco Mountain Estates Number 9 Colonia	2.6 miles	17
Montana Land Estates Colonia	2.7 miles	17
Paso View Colonia	2.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010180. 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.

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.