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Boles Acres, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Alamogordo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88310. The Survey maps it on the Alamogordo South quadrangle. 1,788 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,104 feet above sea level.

Boles Acres within Otero County

Population over time

3 figures

Boles Acres grew from 1,172 to 1,788 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,172
20101,638+466 (+40%)
20201,788+150 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Boles Acres between 1993 and 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCapitan DistrictMM 56
17 August 1993Naturalunder an acreLincoln National Forestnot named
30 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMEADOWLAND
9 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSAWDUST
7 April 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresCapitan District20-51060411X
25 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCapitan DistrictBOLES ACRES
17 March 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM203
4 October 2000Natural5.0 acresLincoln National ForestSAN ANDREAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otero 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 Boles Acres: 2 past producers, 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
Alamo No2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Downs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Otero 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
Omlee2.2 miles13
Valmont4.2 miles9
Dog Canyon Estates4.6 miles9
Monista (historical)5.0 miles10
Alamogordo6.5 miles12
Dunes9.9 miles9
Marcia11.7 miles11
Point of Sands11.9 miles10

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 Boles AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2781468The 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 913246. 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.