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Colmor, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Springer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87747. The Survey maps it on the Colmor quadrangle.

Colmor within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Colmor between 1994 and 2017, burning about 963 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined7
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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
19 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionI-25
24 July 2016Natural360 acresCimarron District404
20 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionREDRIVER
26 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRUNAWAY
1 June 2009Natural16 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFERGUSON
1 June 2009Natural10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFERGUSON II
9 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCimarron DistrictCOLMOR
5 May 2016Smokingunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictMM 377

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Colmor: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Colfax County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colmor in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2013Funnel CloudColmor-Funnel cloud spotted by truck driver on Interstate 25.

Every storm recorded in Colfax 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
Springer10.1 miles8
Taylor Springs11.1 miles8
Miami11.7 miles12
Toril12.0 miles8
Sweetwater (historical)14.6 miles12
Sunny Side16.6 miles12
Rayado17.9 miles12
French18.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898746. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.