Corner Well, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Southeast Otero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88344. The Survey maps it on the Panama Ranch quadrangle.

Corner Well within Otero County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Panama Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Crow Flats quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Panama Ranch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Corner Well between 2005 and 2018, burning about 7,198 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6

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 2005	Natural	75 acres	Lincoln National Forest	CROOKED
23 July 2011	Natural	21 acres	Lincoln National Forest	SEGREST
20 July 2009	Natural	4.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	RUSSELL GAP
20 July 2009	Natural	4.0 acres	Lincoln National Forest	FOSTER
11 July 2011	Natural	12 acres	Lincoln National Forest	TERRY RANCH
15 June 2018	Natural	7,082 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	CROOKED CREEK

Every fire recorded in Otero 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
Piñon	19.0 miles	8
Avis	24.6 miles	8
Cienega (historical)	30.9 miles	8
Weed	31.6 miles	11
Sacramento	32.9 miles	11
Timberon	34.0 miles	9
Crisp	34.3 miles	8
Maxon	34.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 905355. 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.