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Farley, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Springer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88422. The Survey maps it on the Farley quadrangle. It stands 6,067 feet above sea level.

Farley within Colfax County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Farley between 1994 and 2017, burning about 270 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
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
5 August 2000Natural60 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWOODS
5 August 2000Natural40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGLADSTONE
5 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionURRACA
27 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTOOTH
13 July 2017Natural40 acresCimarron DistrictCREEK
18 April 2000Debris and open burning10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDOERR
24 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGLADSTONE
24 January 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionC S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Farley: 4 unknowns. 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Colfax County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farley in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 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
June 2023HailFarley-Supercell dropped half dollar size hail as it tracked southeast through southern Colfax County.
June 2019HailFarley-Two inch hail reported near Farley.
June 2017HailFarley-Penny size hail in Farley.
May 2015HailFarley-Twitter report indicated quarter size hail accumulated to a depth of about 1.5 inches near Abbott.
June 2010HailFarley-no account filed
May 2010HailFarley-no account filed
August 2008HailFarley-no account filed
June 2004HailFarley-no account filed
June 2004HailFarley-no account filed
June 2004HailFarley-no account filed
August 1996HailFarley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colfax 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
Tafoya (historical)6.5 miles8
Palo Blanco (historical)10.5 miles8
Abbott12.1 miles8
Chico12.3 miles8
Kiowa21.1 miles8
Taylor Springs24.1 miles8
Tinaja27.8 miles8
French28.8 miles8

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 Q129993865The 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 888965. 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.