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Cedarvale, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88318. The Survey maps it on the Cedarvale quadrangle. It stands 6,384 feet above sea level.

Cedarvale within Torrance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cedarvale between 1993 and 2020, burning about 118 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
Smoking1

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
12 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPETE
12 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROMAN
25 July 2009Natural110 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCORONA
1 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo District20-61840674X
14 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCEDAR
2 May 2001Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPOUNDS

Every fire recorded in Torrance County

Storms near this place

12 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarvale in 12 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 10 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 2018Tornado (EF0)Cedarvale-Spotters observed a brief landspout tornado several miles northwest of Corona.
May 2017HailCedarvale-Quarter size hail near Corona.
May 2017HailCedarvale-Quarter size hail for five minutes southeast of Cedarvale.
September 2016HailCedarvale-Motorists inundated by hail storm. Leaves shredded from trees. Roadway was covered in a couple inches of hail. No damage noted to vehicle.
September 2016HailCedarvale-Quarter size hail.
September 2016HailCedarvale-Quarter to just under ping pong ball size.
June 2014Funnel CloudCedarvale-Report of funnel cloud 10 miles northwest of Corona within a rotating wall cloud.
June 2014HailCedarvale-no account filed
June 2014HailCedarvale-no account filed
June 2014HailCedarvale-no account filed
August 2013HailCedarvale-no account filed
August 2013HailCedarvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Torrance 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
Varney8.6 miles7
Torrance9.4 miles7
Progresso12.1 miles7
Duran17.5 miles6
Dummoor17.9 miles6
Pedernal18.5 miles6
Silio19.5 miles6
Lucy20.7 miles6

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 CedarvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705954The 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 918127. 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.