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Cameo, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Portales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88101. The Survey maps it on the Midway quadrangle.

Cameo within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Cameo between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,828 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Smoking3
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
11 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBONNER
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
24 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHIDDEN
24 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPRINCE
20 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionKENW
10 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionOJO
30 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCURRY ROAD
26 June 2005Smoking3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTOPEKA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cameo: 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
Blackwater Draw Diatomaceous Earth OccurrencesDiatomiteOccurrence
Name Unknown Diatomite ProspectDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Daugherty MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameo in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 tornado, 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
March 2007Tornado (EF2)Cameo$2,500,000Tornado with estimated peak winds of near 120 mph severely damaged the Portales City water well facility on State Road 202 about 5 miles east of Highway 70. The tornado moved north northwest destroying a new dairy before continuing northwest into Curry County. No injuries reported but storm debris briefly trapped a dairy employee. About 190 dairy cows either killed by the event or else sent to immediate slaughter due to injuries. Average width approximately 200 yards.
June 2009HailCameo$25,000Hail and strong winds knocked siding off of a home, broke house windows and piled up over one foot deep on Route 202, east of U.S. Highway 70. A funnel cloud was also reported to be in the area.
June 2019Flash FloodCameo-NM-202 was closed due to dangerous flash flooding. A large area of radar estimated rainfall between 6 and 10 inches occurred in extreme northeastern Roosevelt and extreme southeastern Curry counties.
June 2014HailCameo-Dime to quarter size hail northeast of Portales.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Cameo-Relayed by Emergency Manager. Tornado briefly touched down in open rangeland. No damage reported.
September 2024HailCameo-no account filed
October 2015HailCameo-no account filed
May 2010HailCameo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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
Midway2.4 miles9
Portales9.1 miles8
Eiland (historical)12.1 miles9
Yerba12.3 miles8
Arch12.8 miles9
Bethel13.9 miles8
Tinsley Crossing15.3 miles8
Floyd19.6 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898525. 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.