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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Corona quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Cedarvale quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Cedarvale quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PETE |
| 12 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROMAN |
| 25 July 2009 | Natural | 110 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CORONA |
| 1 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 19 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-61840674X |
| 14 June 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CEDAR |
| 2 May 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | POUNDS |
Storms near this place
12 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Cedarvale | - | Spotters observed a brief landspout tornado several miles northwest of Corona. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | Quarter size hail near Corona. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | Quarter size hail for five minutes southeast of Cedarvale. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | Motorists inundated by hail storm. Leaves shredded from trees. Roadway was covered in a couple inches of hail. No damage noted to vehicle. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | Quarter size hail. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | Quarter to just under ping pong ball size. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Cedarvale | - | Report of funnel cloud 10 miles northwest of Corona within a rotating wall cloud. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Cedarvale | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Cedarvale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14705954 | The 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.




