Dunlap, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88119. The Survey maps it on the Dunlap quadrangle.

Dunlap within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Dunlap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Dunlap between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,000 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
27 August 2015	Natural	7.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DINNWIDDE COMPLEX
13 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	EVANOLA
20 July 2011	Natural	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COW CHIP
15 July 2011	Natural	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SHORTCUT
12 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DANIELS
12 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BAKER
5 June 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	20/17
3 June 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Capitan District	CIMARRON

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunlap in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
September 2018	Flash Flood	Dunlap	$10,000	Fences were washed out along state road 20. Debris was forced over the roadway. Damages are a very rough estimate.
May 2025	Hail	Dunlap	-	Penny to nickel size hail.
May 2022	Hail	Dunlap	-	A trained spotter reported nickel size hail just east of Mesa that was accumulating on the ground.
June 2021	Flood	Dunlap	-	Heavy rain south of Yeso in De Baca County resulted in the closure of New Mexico State Road 20 from mile marker 10 to mile marker 13. There are no known impacts.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Dunlap	-	Heavy rain and flash flooding forced the closure of New Mexico State Road 20 from mile marker 0 to mile marker 45. No damages were known.
April 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Dunlap	-	A weak landspout tornado developed roughly one mile east of U.S. Highway 285 between mile markers 160 and 165 northwest of Mesa, NM. No damage was observed with this storm.
May 2017	Hail	Dunlap	-	Two inch hail on State Road 20.
May 2017	Hail	Dunlap	-	Nickel size hail.
March 2015	Hail	Dunlap	-	Storm chaser reported one to two inches of pea to quarter size hail on State Road 50.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Dunlap	-	Spotter noted that Yeso Creek had overflowed its banks and was also running rapidly. No further information or damage was reported.
September 2014	Hail	Dunlap	-	Pea to nickel size hail with heavy rain.
August 2013	Hail	Dunlap	-	Nickel size hail reported from off duty NWS employee on Highway 285.
June 2013	Hail	Dunlap	-	Nickel hail 29 miles south of Yeso.
May 2006	Hail	Dunlap	-	Hail on Highway 285 northwest of the Mesa Rest Stop.
May 1997	Hail	Dunlap	-	Dime to quarter hail covering the ground north of Dunlap.
May 1997	Hail	Dunlap	-	Dime to quarter hail covering ground to two inches deep north of Dunlap.
September 2014	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in De Baca 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
Ricardo (historical)	22.4 miles	7
Evanola	22.9 miles	7
Yeso	24.8 miles	6
Agudo	25.1 miles	7
Largo	26.8 miles	6
Buchanan (historical)	27.7 miles	6
Canton (historical)	27.8 miles	7
Fort Sumner	30.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898545. 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.

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.