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.
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
- Abandoned Route 66-Cuervo to NM 156listed 1993
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Cuervo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROAD |
| 16 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CUERVO |
| 25 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Las Vegas District | 20-40220208X |
| 1 August 2007 | Natural | 200 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 6 June 2007 | Smoking | 500 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 21 June 2017 | Natural | 50 acres | Las Vegas District | CORRIENTE |
| 10 May 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 3 April 2018 | Smoking | 140 acres | Las Vegas District | CORN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit 62-33-S | Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuervo | $100,000 | Large 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 2023 | Flash Flood | Cuervo | - | A storm chaser reported flooding on secondary roads near I-40 west of Newkirk. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Cuervo | - | 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 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Cuervo | - | Chaser reported a tornado east/southeast of Santa Rosa on the ground for 10 minutes. |
| May 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Cuervo | - | A motorist traveling along U.S. Highway 84 observed a well-developed funnel cloud dissipating several miles to the north of highway. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Cuervo | - | Ping pong size hail at the Cuervo Exxon station. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Cuervo | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Cuervo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double Mills | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Los Tanos | 7.5 miles | 6 | |
| Newkirk | 8.0 miles | 6 | |
| Alamo (historical) | 15.0 miles | 6 | |
| Santa Rosa | 15.9 miles | 7 | |
| Puerto De Luna | 17.8 miles | 7 | |
| Agua Negra (historical) | 18.5 miles | 7 | |
| Arabella | 23.0 miles | 6 |
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 Cuervo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14705972 | 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 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.


