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Cloverdale, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the South Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88020. The Survey maps it on the Black Point quadrangle.

Cloverdale within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cloverdale between 1993 and 2019, burning about 19,298 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRED HILL
7 June 2018Natural12 acresCoronado National ForestCLOVERDALE FIRE
30 June 1994Natural2,800 acresCoronado National ForestCLOVERDALE
3 June 2000Natural3,500 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFITZPATRICK
11 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBORDER
30 May 2009Natural425 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBATTALION
21 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,000 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFITZPATRICK
7 March 2011Recreation and ceremony114 acresCoronado National ForestGUADALUPE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverdale in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2007HailCloverdale$5,000Downburst winds gusting to an estimated 80 mph drove a large amount of quarter size hail into the sides of buildings on the Midbar Ranch. All screens on the windward side were destroyed. Bark was stripped from trees on the windward side of trunks. Tall grass was stripped to near the ground.
September 2014Heavy RainCloverdale-A spotter in Cloverdale reported a total of 4.31 inches of rain between the 17th and early on the 19th. There was some localized road flooding in the town of Cloverdale.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-no account filed
May 2007HailCloverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hidalgo 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
Deer Creek Wells12.7 miles14
Mace14.5 miles15
Birchfield15.3 miles14
Lovett15.6 miles15
Deer16.0 miles14
Abe Yarbrough16.8 miles14
Joe Yarbrough18.0 miles14
Middle Wells18.2 miles14

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 Q1102728The 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 920578. 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.