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Broadview, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Broadview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88112. The Survey maps it on the Broadview quadrangle. It stands 4,514 feet above sea level.

Broadview within Curry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Broadview between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,004 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSTOUTS
18 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMASON
17 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPEDYGREW
15 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHELL
1 June 2003Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSTOVALL
26 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use123 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPOOLE
20 May 2000Natural50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBALDRIDGE
10 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSPARKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Broadview: 4 unknowns. 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 57-16-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadview in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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 2023HailBroadview$10,000no account filed
April 2025HailBroadview$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced baseball size hail 3 miles north of Broadview. The hail blew out the windows of the observer's truck and house.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBroadview$500A large tree, 2.5-3 feet in diameter, was blown down near Broadview.
May 2024HailBroadview-A thunderstorm produced up to penny size hail a few miles south of Broadview.
May 2023HailBroadview-A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail one mile south of Broadview.
May 2023HailBroadview-There was a public report of golf ball size hail in Broadview.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBroadview-An off-duty NWS meteorologist storm chasing measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph.
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Broadview-Multiple reports from storm chasers of a tornado in the area between Grady and Broadview just north of State Highway 209. This tornado only lasted less than two miles before lifting. No damage was reported in this extremely rural area of east-central NM.
March 2019HailBroadview-Hail up to the size of pennies reported along NM-209 north of Clovis.
March 2019HailBroadview-Hail up to the size of quarters reported near Broadview.
May 2019HailBroadview-Hail up to the size of nickels with heavy rainfall just south of Broadview.
July 2017Tornado (EF0)Broadview-A well developed landspout tornado touched down near SR-209 and C.R. 32 and remained on the ground for 15 minutes. No damage occurred.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBroadview-Spotter reported broken glass and a large tree knocked over from winds and half inch size hail.
June 2013HailBroadview-Marble to ping pong ball size hail for about 10 minutes 10 miles south of Grady.
May 2012HailBroadview-Nickel size hail reported 2 miles north of Broadview.
May 2012HailBroadview-Penny size hail reported 1 mile south of Broadview.
May 2012HailBroadview-Quarter size hail reported 7 miles south of Broadview.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBroadview-The Broadview Fire Department estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
June 1994HailBroadview-Golf ball-size hail in Portales broke some windshields in cars and windows in a few homes. The larger baseball hail was over open country. These reports came from TV station spotters.
June 1994HailBroadview-Dime-size hail reported by a storm spotter.
May 2023HailBroadview-no account filed
October 2015HailBroadview-no account filed
May 2008HailBroadview-no account filed
June 2007HailBroadview-no account filed
July 2005HailBroadview-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBroadview-no account filed
June 2003HailBroadview-no account filed
October 1998Funnel CloudBroadview-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudBroadview-no account filed
May 1996HailBroadview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Curry 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
Grady5.5 miles6
Bellview5.6 miles6
Hollene7.1 miles6
Claud15.7 miles7
Pleasant Hill21.9 miles7
Field22.8 miles6
Ranchvale23.2 miles8
Weber City25.8 miles7

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 BroadviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17512192The 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 886744. 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.