Delphos, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Elida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. The Survey maps it on the Delphos quadrangle.

Delphos within Roosevelt 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.

1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Portales quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Delphos quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Delphos between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,562 acres in total. 20 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STANDEFER
10 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	PORCUPIN
29 August 2000	Natural	120 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STANDEFER
20 August 2014	Natural	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LIED
16 August 2015	Natural	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DAUGHERTY 2
10 August 2011	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VICTOR
7 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SILHAN
4 July 2000	Natural	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DEMENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Delphos: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
	Nunn Pit	Limestone, General	Producer	Caliche

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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
Tinsley Crossing	5.2 miles	8
Kermit	7.4 miles	7
Yerba	8.2 miles	8
Red Lake (historical)	9.9 miles	6
Upton	10.1 miles	6
Bethel	10.6 miles	8
Floyd	10.7 miles	7
Portales	11.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898540. 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.