Agudo, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88119. The Survey maps it on the Fort Sumner West quadrangle.

Agudo within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Sumner West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Agudo between 1995 and 2018, burning about 1,496 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None 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
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2007	Smoking	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
28 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VAUGHN
10 August 2011	Natural	18 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SOUTH PIT
9 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Capitan District	7 LEGENDS
29 July 2011	Natural	840 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JOHNNY MAC
25 July 2016	Natural	100 acres	Capitan District	SOUTH EAST MILL
13 July 2011	Natural	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CACTUS
3 June 2006	Natural	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Agudo: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cortez Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fort Sumner Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in De Baca County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agudo in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Agudo	-	Thunderstorm winds broke large branches off a tree.

Every storm recorded in De Baca 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
Ricardo (historical)	4.4 miles	7
Fort Sumner	5.5 miles	7
La Lande	9.5 miles	7
Evanola	10.1 miles	7
Guadalupe	11.7 miles	7
Salado	13.8 miles	7
Lake Sumner	15.5 miles	7
Taiban	15.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923450. 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.