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Encinoso, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Capitan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88316. It lies near Gum Spring Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Encinoso quadrangle.

Encinoso within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Encinoso between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,682 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
20 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestGUM SPRINGS
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestMINCHLEY
12 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLincoln National Forestnot named
29 August 2002Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestWEST
16 August 2011Natural3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionELK
28 July 2011Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestGAP
28 July 2011Natural2.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBIG BUCKET
27 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,350 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSTONE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Encinoso: 7 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Uranium, Iron, 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
Fuzzy Nut 1-18 ClaimsThorium, REEOccurrence
Hopeful ClaimsUranium, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Koprian SpringsUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Big BenIronProspect
WhettigeIronProspect
Capitan Uranium Co ClaimsThorium, UraniumProspect
Capitan Uranium Co. ProspectUranium, ThoriumOccurrence
Mccory ProspectsThoriumOccurrence1952
Mccrory Prospect Sec 31ThoriumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encinoso in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Encinoso$100,000Supercell thunderstorm near Encinoso spawned a tornado along Highway 246 at Richardson Canyon Road. The tornado traveled east-southeast down Richardson Canyon Road, snapping off the tops of trees and breaking numerous branches of Ponderosa pine. The tornado intensified as it approached 2 homes. A single wide mobile home from the 1970s was completely destroyed as the undercarriage was moved about 20 feet and all walls separated and tossed. A double wide mobile home was tossed into a barn and destroyed. Portions of the roof were blown 250 yards away. At least two other homes as well as a barn and shed sustained damage.
May 2009LightningEncinoso$25,000Three major fires consumed around 44,000 acres of rangeland from May 20th into the 24th. The three fires were located north of Capitan, around Arabela and near Picacho. The most significant of these was the Fresquez 2 fire north of Capitan. It burned around 10,000 acres north of Highway 246/48 and six ranches suffered fire damage to various degrees. Burned pasture/grassland was the main fire damage as no structures were damaged. However, several cattle were killed in the blaze.
July 2021Flash FloodEncinoso$10,000Strong thunderstorms near Encinoso produced an estimated 1.5 to 2 inches of rainfall. This resulted in severe flooding along New Mexico State Road 246 which forced the closure of the roadway from mile marker 18 to mile marker 36. Damages are estimated for the washed out roadway.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEncinoso-The CSBF Transwestern Pump recorded a gust to 76 mph from a massive storm moving to the south.
August 2013HailEncinoso-Route 246 around mile post 14, half dollar size hail fell from probably 345 to 4PM.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Coalora10.1 miles15
Capitan10.8 miles15
Reventon11.2 miles10
Double Crossing11.2 miles14
Baca (historical)12.1 miles13
Vera Cruz (historical)12.8 miles15
Fort Stanton13.3 miles9
Pine Lodge13.3 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122595748The 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 906169. 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.