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Engle, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Truth or Consequences East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87901. The Survey maps it on the Engle quadrangle. It stands 4,777 feet above sea level.

Engle within Sierra County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Engle between 1992 and 2000, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3

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
8 July 1994Natural5.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeCHAMPAGNE
28 July 2000Natural12 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWADELL
23 October 1992Natural5.0 acresGila National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Engle in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 2 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEngle-The Denver WIT Mesonet site on the White Sands Missile Range recorded a peak gust of 60 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEngle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sierra 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
Jornada3.7 miles12
Cutter8.1 miles12
Elephant Butte8.4 miles14
Elephant Butte Estates9.4 miles14
Hot Springs Landing9.7 miles14
Rock Canyon10.0 miles14
Crocker11.4 miles11
Truth or Consequences12.2 miles9

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 EngleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19461596The 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 888887. 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.