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El Morro, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Zuni-Ramah Navajo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87321. It lies near Obe Worthen Mesa. The Survey maps it on the El Morro quadrangle.

El Morro within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of El Morro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 291 acres in total. 28 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
Debris and open burning33
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2003Naturalunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyWELL
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOBO
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo DistrictSTANLEY
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyMILE MARKER 5
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyEL MORRO 2
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyDONFIRE
30 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPINEHAVEN
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEl Malpais National MonumentLARGO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Morro in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2015Flash FloodEl Morro$250,000Heavy rains caused a barn and two pastures to be flooded. One lane of a two-lane gravel road was also washed out with many other roads seeing 3 feet deep ravines created by the heavy rain. Numerous roads around the Zuni Mountains were washed out and residents were trapped in their homes for several days until county officials could repair the roads. Phone services were also lost.
July 2012Flash FloodEl Morro-Reservation Road 135 was completely flooded and impassable near the intersection of Highway 53.
September 1997HailEl Morro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cibola 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
Pinehill3.3 miles11
Sand Corner6.1 miles17
Pueblito6.4 miles17
Tinaja6.7 miles17
Sawyer12.8 miles17
Aragon13.4 miles17
Copperton14.1 miles17
Paxton Springs (historical)15.2 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 937121. 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.