BlockBoaz, New Mexico
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Northeast Chaves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88201. The Survey maps it on the Curlew Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Curlew Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Boaz between 1992 and 2019, burning about 338 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Roswell Field Office | MITCHELL |
| 21 August 2010 | Natural | 200 acres | Roswell Field Office | MOOREHEAD |
| 14 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | EARL |
| 5 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Roswell Field Office | FREEDOM |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Capitan District | RIM 374 |
| 14 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Roswell Field Office | CAR |
| 12 May 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Roswell Field Office | PLAIN |
| 18 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Roswell Field Office | LINGO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boaz in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2022 | Flood | Boaz | $500,000 | A long duration rain event across the area caused the Pecos River to swell to record values. The Acme gauge, located to the northeast of Roswell along the river, entered action stage during the early morning hours of August 21st, and water levels continued to rise quickly to a crest of 17.37 feet by about 2 PM MDT. This was well over the major flood stage of 16 feet, and it set a new record for the Acme gauge. The gauge stayed in major flood stage for about seven hours before gradually falling below action stage during the evening hours of August 22nd. This record flooding along the Pecos River caused major impacts in the area. Near Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, the Chaves County emergency manager relayed reports of a truck that was stuck within the flood waters with the driver having to be rescued. Damages are estimated. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Boaz | - | No hail damage, except trees lost lots of leaves. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Boaz | - | A trained spotter reported one inch hail south of Kenna. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Boaz | - | A storm chaser reported a tornado on the ground moving to the east-northeast over extreme eastern Chaves County. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Boaz | - | Quarter size hail 16 miles east of Elkins. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Boaz | - | Quarter size hail. |
| October 2012 | Hail | Boaz | - | Quarter sized hail 2.4 miles east southeast of Boaz lasted for about 2 minutes. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Boaz | - | Spotter reported dime to quarter size hail 2.4 miles east southeast of Boaz. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Boaz | - | Dime to penny size hail reported. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Boaz | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Boaz | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Boaz | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatty Wells | 1.3 miles | 5 | |
| Robertson Wells | 3.7 miles | 5 | |
| Elkins | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Lone Wolf | 7.6 miles | 5 | |
| Campbell | 14.9 miles | 8 | |
| Olive | 15.2 miles | 8 | |
| Vest Wells | 16.0 miles | 5 | |
| Corner Well | 19.2 miles | 5 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898731. 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.