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Cabezon, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Cuba census division. The Survey maps it on the San Luis quadrangle. It stands 6,116 feet above sea level.

Cabezon within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cabezon between 2000 and 2012, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 May 2000Naturalunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeLUCK
5 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRio Puerco Field OfficeSAN LUIS TWINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cabezon in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Flash FloodCabezon-Radar estimated between three and four inches of rainfall within the Rio Puerco watershed near the Cabezon and Chamisa wilderness areas. The river gage on the Rio Puerco at Gaudalupe reported a rise of nearly 14 feet in less than one hour.

Every storm recorded in Sandoval 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
San Luis4.6 miles19
Guadalupe6.5 miles20
Casa Salazar9.9 miles18
Torreon13.3 miles18
LaVentana15.4 miles19
San Ysidro17.9 miles17
Gilman18.9 miles18
Deer Creek Landing19.0 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q28531308The 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 902799. 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.