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Field, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the Melrose census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88124. The Survey maps it on the Field quadrangle.

Field within Curry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Field between 1993 and 2012, burning about 5,155 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/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
18 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFIELD II
18 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBOSS
25 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNASH
2 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSANDQUIEST
1 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGUNNELS
8 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFIELD
27 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWEBER CITY
22 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeNM383

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry 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 Field: 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 Curry County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Field in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EFU)Field-Trained spotter documented a brief tornado relayed by the Curry County Emergency Manager. No damage was reported as the tornado was brief and in rural land. Damage rating EF-Unknown.
May 2023HailField-Quarter size hail reported near Forrest, NM.
May 2023Flash FloodField-Multiple reports of roads impassable, closed, and underwater from single heavy rain event stretching from north of Melrose to north of Clovis. State Highways 89, 268, 288, 224, 311, and County Roads 1, 16, 19, and multiple dirt roads underwater and impassable. Damages are unknown.
June 2016FloodField-State Road 268 closed due to severe flooding from mile marker 0 to 18 north of Melrose.
May 2023HailField-no account filed
October 2015HailField-no account filed
October 2000HailField-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Curry 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
Weber City3.8 miles7
Melrose14.1 miles7
Saint Vrain15.2 miles8
Ranchvale16.1 miles8
Grier17.5 miles8
Grady18.7 miles6
Claud20.6 miles7
Portair20.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898776. 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.