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Escabosa, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Bernalillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87059. It lies near Charlies Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Escabosa quadrangle.

Escabosa within Bernalillo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Escabosa between 1992 and 2019, burning about 26 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCAROLINO
24 September 2005Naturalunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyGUADALUPE
6 August 2003Natural2.5 acresCibola National ForestGOTERA
3 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestOJO 1
14 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionESCOBOSA
6 July 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCibola National ForestCAROLINA
6 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHILILI
4 July 2001Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bernalillo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Escabosa: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Blackbird No. 2 & 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Name Fire-Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Wildacres PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bernalillo County

Storms near this place

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Escabosa in 11 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025HailEscabosa$5,000A trained spotter reported golf ball to baseball size hail from a severe thunderstorm. The hail resulted in tree, house and automobile damage.
May 2025HailEscabosa-Penny to half-dollar size hail near Sedillo, NM.
May 2023HailEscabosa-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail that lasted 10 to 15 minutes.
July 2022Flash FloodEscabosa-Heavy rain resulted in water over Highway 217 near Greenridge Boulevard. No damages were noted.
June 2019HailEscabosa-Hail up to the size of golf balls near Ponderosa.
July 2015Flash FloodEscabosa-Ten feet of water was rushing through a normally dry gulley on the spotters property. No damage was reported as a result of this wall of water.
July 2013Flash FloodEscabosa-A flash flood resulted in the closure of Martinez Road due to high water and debris. A resident observed water and debris flowing over the road about 100 yards wide. Rainfall reports from this area were near one inch in less than an hour.
October 2010HailEscabosa-Three minutes of golf ball size hail followed by 15 minutes of pea size hail.
May 2023HailEscabosa-no account filed
July 2011HailEscabosa-no account filed
October 2010HailEscabosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bernalillo 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
Miera2.8 miles12
Yrisarri2.9 miles12
Chilili3.9 miles13
Ponderosa Pine4.0 miles12
Manzano Springs4.1 miles13
Old Chilili5.1 miles13
Augustine5.1 miles13
Juan Tomas7.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 918178. 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.