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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.

Evanola within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

10 since 1997

Regional 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
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEON
4 June 2011Natural200 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCRIST NORTH
18 June 2016Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresCapitan DistrictFENCE LINE
1 June 2011Natural7.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTREY
21 March 2009Natural220 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBIG SKY
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJORGE
25 February 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1,400 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMORRIS FIRE
17 February 2000Railroad operations and maintenance42,212 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJOHNNY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in De Baca County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008HailEvanola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in De Baca 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
Ricardo (historical)6.0 miles7
Yeso6.3 miles6
Guadalupe9.6 miles7
Agudo10.1 miles7
Largo11.7 miles6
Salado12.6 miles7
Fort Sumner13.7 miles7
Lake Sumner15.6 miles7

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 Q122558632The 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.