Becker, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Belen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87002. The Survey maps it on the Becker quadrangle.

Becker within Valencia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1916 USGS La Joya quadrangle1:125000
1952 USGS Becker quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Becker between 2001 and 2012, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
2 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SPLIT FIRE
26 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TRUCK
11 April 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM2-47
5 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Becker in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 hail. 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
June 2018	Hail	Becker	-	Quarter size hail near Tierra Grande.

Every storm recorded in Valencia 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
Bodega	5.0 miles	10
Canyon del Rio	8.7 miles	11
Casa Colorada	8.9 miles	10
Madrone	9.2 miles	10
Bosque	10.2 miles	10
Jarales	11.3 miles	10
Rio Grande Estates	12.2 miles	10
Pueblitos	12.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898520. 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.

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.