Abo, New Mexico
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87036. It lies near CaƱon Barranco. The Survey maps it on the Abo quadrangle.
On record in Abo
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
AboNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Mission San Gregorio de Abo, State Highway 513, Mountainair vicinity, Abofederal building survey, 14 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Abo quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Abo quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
5 photographs, 1943Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Abo between 1993 and 2012, burning about 327 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SISNEROS |
| 16 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument | SISNERO FIRE |
| 5 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | ROOSEVELT 404 |
| 25 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CHILTON |
| 24 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PARDA |
| 28 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 30 June 2002 | Natural | 4.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GLOVER |
| 30 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SANDHILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Abo: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abo Mine | Silver, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Scholle District | Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium | Past Producer | 1905, 1915, 1961 |
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abo in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Canyon | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Scholle | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Mountainair | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| La Cienega | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Thunderbird | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Punta de Agua | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Los Chavez | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| El Gato | 11.6 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.
| Wikipedia article on Abo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4668189 | 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 902937. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





