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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.

Abo within Torrance County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

5 photographs, 1943

Taken 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.

Abo, New Mexico. Going through the town on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico
Abo, New Mexico. Going through the town on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Abo (vicinity), New Mexico. Going through the country along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Belen, New Mexico
Abo (vicinity), New Mexico. Going through the country along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Belen, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Abo, New Mexico. Train stopping along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico
Abo, New Mexico. Train stopping along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Mission San Gregorio de Abo, State Highway 513, Mountainair vicinity, Abo, Torrance County, NM
Mission San Gregorio de Abo, State Highway 513, Mountainair vicinity, Abo, Torrance County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Abo, New Mexico. Going through the town on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico
Abo, New Mexico. Going through the town on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

23 since 1993

Regional 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSISNEROS
16 September 2007Debris and open burning1.7 acresSalinas Pueblo Missions National MonumentSISNERO FIRE
5 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreCibola National ForestROOSEVELT 404
25 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHILTON
24 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPARDA
28 July 1993Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
30 June 2002Natural4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGLOVER
30 June 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSANDHILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Torrance 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Abo MineSilver, CopperUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Scholle DistrictCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, UraniumPast Producer1905, 1915, 1961

Every working recorded in Torrance County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAbo-A trained spotter measured a 59 mph wind gust from a thunderstorm outflow northeast of Abo.
June 2018Funnel CloudAbo-Funnel cloud observed near Abo Pass.
June 2018HailAbo-Nickel size hail southwest of Mountainair.

Every storm recorded in Torrance 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Deer Canyon3.3 miles8
Scholle4.8 miles8
Mountainair6.6 miles10
La Cienega8.8 miles11
Thunderbird9.0 miles11
Punta de Agua10.3 miles11
Los Chavez10.8 miles11
El Gato11.6 miles11

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 AboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4668189The 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.