Claunch, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Claunch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87011. The Survey maps it on the Claunch quadrangle. It stands 6,217 feet above sea level.

Claunch within Socorro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Corona quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Claunch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Claunch between 2000 and 2020, burning about 4 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	3
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
24 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Socorro District	CLAUNCH 2
22 July 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLAUNCH
6 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Socorro District	CLAUNCH SMOKE REPORT
29 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Socorro District	WELLS
22 June 2001	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLAUNCH
17 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Capitan District	HWY 285
9 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WARNICA

Every fire recorded in Socorro County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claunch in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 3 hail. 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
June 2022	Hail	Claunch	-	A COOP observer near Gran Quivira reported quarter size hail with a severe thunderstorm.
May 2008	Hail	Claunch	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Claunch	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Socorro 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bingham	26.6 miles	11
Coane	29.4 miles	10
Tomasino Mill	36.8 miles	8
Carthage	39.5 miles	9
Canyon Mill	40.0 miles	8
Red Mill	41.4 miles	10
Old Carthage	42.9 miles	9
Tokay	43.6 miles	9

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 Claunch	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705959	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 905190. 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.