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Cuervo, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1963. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88417. It stands on Cuervo Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Cuervo quadrangle. It stands 4,859 feet above sea level.

Cuervo within Guadalupe County

On record in Cuervo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cuervo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,610 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Natural2

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
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROAD
16 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCUERVO
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLas Vegas District20-40220208X
1 August 2007Natural200 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
6 June 2007Smoking500 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
21 June 2017Natural50 acresLas Vegas DistrictCORRIENTE
10 May 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
3 April 2018Smoking140 acresLas Vegas DistrictCORN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe 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 Cuervo: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, 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 Pit 62-33-SCalcium, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuervo in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCuervo$100,000Large wooden doors were blown off a barn. Several trees had severe damage. A plastic roof on a greenhouse was blown off. A metal tail of a windmill was wrapped around the wheel base.
July 2023Flash FloodCuervo-A storm chaser reported flooding on secondary roads near I-40 west of Newkirk.
July 2021HailCuervo-A trained spotter reported one inch hail from a severe thunderstorm near Cuervo. The spotter also reported that the hail accumulated to about an inch deep, but impacts are known.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Cuervo-Chaser reported a tornado east/southeast of Santa Rosa on the ground for 10 minutes.
May 2017Funnel CloudCuervo-A motorist traveling along U.S. Highway 84 observed a well-developed funnel cloud dissipating several miles to the north of highway.
June 2008HailCuervo-Ping pong size hail at the Cuervo Exxon station.
October 2015HailCuervo-no account filed
June 2002HailCuervo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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
Double Mills6.5 miles13
Los Tanos7.5 miles6
Newkirk8.0 miles6
Alamo (historical)15.0 miles6
Santa Rosa15.9 miles7
Puerto De Luna17.8 miles7
Agua Negra (historical)18.5 miles7
Arabella23.0 miles6

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 CuervoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705972The 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 915818. 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.