Mile High, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sierra Blanca census division. It lies near Triple Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gunsight Hills South quadrangle.

Mile High within Hudspeth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1895 USGS Sierra Blanca quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1948 USGS Triple Hill quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Gunsight Hills South quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sierra Blanca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Mile High: 3 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium, Uranium, Tin, Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium. 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
Little Blanca Mountain Prospects	Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium, Uranium, Tin	Occurrence	1969
Sierra Blanca	Beryllium	Prospect	1968
South Sierra Blanca Prospect	Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect	1969
Little Round Top Prospects	Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium	Occurrence	1969
North Sierra Blanca Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium	Prospect	1969
Round Top Prospects	Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium	Occurrence	1969

Every working recorded in Hudspeth 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
Etholen	5.5 miles	13
Sierra Blanca	7.3 miles	13
Arispe	11.0 miles	13
Finlay	11.6 miles	11
Old Patterson Place	16.5 miles	11
Fort Quitman	17.0 miles	10
Esperanza	17.6 miles	11
Eagle Flat	18.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362836. 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.