Corner Windmill, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Van Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79855. It lies near Threemile Peak. The Survey maps it on the Van Horn quadrangle.

Corner Windmill within Culberson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1906 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Corner Windmill: 16 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper, Talc-Soapstone, Barium-Barite. 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
Maltby Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Turquoise
Mcvay Ranch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Neal Mann Prospect	Talc-Soapstone, Asbestos	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Unnamed Occurrence	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Vein
Unnamed Prospect	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Vein
Neal Mann Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Prospect
Tumbledown Mine	Talc-Soapstone	Producer	Metamorphic
Tumbledown Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Producer
Unknown	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
Hackberry Mine	Silver, Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Culberson 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
Van Horn	2.7 miles	13
Lobo	18.4 miles	12
Boracho	25.6 miles	8
Ort	31.6 miles	8
Kent	34.6 miles	8
Pezuna del Caballo	35.9 miles	7
Levinson	40.0 miles	9
Grisham Pumping Station	44.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379592. 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.