Evanola, 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 Ricardo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1966 USGS Ricardo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Evanola between 1997 and 2016, burning about 44,841 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LEON |
| 4 June 2011 | Natural | 200 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CRIST NORTH |
| 18 June 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 8.0 acres | Capitan District | FENCE LINE |
| 1 June 2011 | Natural | 7.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TREY |
| 21 March 2009 | Natural | 220 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BIG SKY |
| 15 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | JORGE |
| 25 February 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1,400 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MORRIS FIRE |
| 17 February 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 42,212 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | JOHNNY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Evanola: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evanola in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Hail | Evanola | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ricardo (historical) | 6.0 miles | 7 | |
| Yeso | 6.3 miles | 6 | |
| Guadalupe | 9.6 miles | 7 | |
| Agudo | 10.1 miles | 7 | |
| Largo | 11.7 miles | 6 | |
| Salado | 12.6 miles | 7 | |
| Fort Sumner | 13.7 miles | 7 | |
| Lake Sumner | 15.6 miles | 7 |
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 Q122558632 | The 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 923474. 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.



