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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1918 USGS Cienega Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Black Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Alamo Hueco Mountains quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Black Point quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | RED HILL |
| 7 June 2018 | Natural | 12 acres | Coronado National Forest | CLOVERDALE FIRE |
| 30 June 1994 | Natural | 2,800 acres | Coronado National Forest | CLOVERDALE |
| 3 June 2000 | Natural | 3,500 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FITZPATRICK |
| 11 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BORDER |
| 30 May 2009 | Natural | 425 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BATTALION |
| 21 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FITZPATRICK |
| 7 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 114 acres | Coronado National Forest | GUADALUPE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Hail | Cloverdale | $5,000 | Downburst 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 2014 | Heavy Rain | Cloverdale | - | 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cloverdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Cloverdale | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Creek Wells | 12.7 miles | 14 | |
| Mace | 14.5 miles | 15 | |
| Birchfield | 15.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lovett | 15.6 miles | 15 | |
| Deer | 16.0 miles | 14 | |
| Abe Yarbrough | 16.8 miles | 14 | |
| Joe Yarbrough | 18.0 miles | 14 | |
| Middle Wells | 18.2 miles | 14 |
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 Q1102728 | 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 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.







