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Arch, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Portales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88130. The Survey maps it on the Arch quadrangle.

Arch within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Arch between 1992 and 2019, burning about 14,869 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSMITH
11 September 2019Natural4.0 acresCapitan District20-50710246X
25 August 2011Natural89 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCRAWFORD
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use11 acresCapitan DistrictBRADLEY RANCH
26 July 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
24 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNEECE
14 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBRADLEY
5 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPLUMMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arch: 1 unknown. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arch in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2024HailArch-A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Dora, NM. Report was forwarded by a media outlet in Amarillo, TX.
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Arch-Small and short lived tornado reported over open rangeland just north of Arch. No reported damage.
July 2007HailArch-no account filed
May 2006HailArch-no account filed
August 2004HailArch-no account filed
May 2003HailArch-no account filed
June 2003HailArch-no account filed
June 1999HailArch-no account filed
June 1996HailArch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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
Eiland (historical)2.8 miles9
Inez10.1 miles6
Rogers10.2 miles6
Midway11.2 miles9
Portales11.3 miles8
Cameo12.8 miles9
Yerba12.9 miles8
Longs (historical)13.6 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 885867. 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.