Four Wells, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Carlsbad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88220. The Survey maps it on the Red Bluff Draw quadrangle.

Four Wells within Eddy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1940 USGS Bandanna Point quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Bandanna Point quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Red Bluff Draw quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Four Wells between 1992 and 2018, burning about 254 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 August 2009	Natural	5.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	THREE FORKS
2 August 2016	Natural	9.9 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	RAWHIDE
20 July 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	4 WELLS 2
28 June 2018	Natural	173 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	LINE
18 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FIESTA
31 May 1993	Natural	35 acres	Roswell Field Office	CRAMER II
15 April 1993	Natural	under an acre	Roswell Field Office	PHANTOM
30 October 1992	Natural	20 acres	Roswell Field Office	FOUR WELLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Three Forks

Every fire recorded in Eddy 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Three Forks	3.8 miles	12
Queen	12.7 miles	16
Barber Crossing	18.7 miles	11
Four Forks	19.0 miles	12
Seven Rivers	21.9 miles	8
Whites City	22.6 miles	12
West Carlsbad	24.8 miles	12
San Jose	25.8 miles	11

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 Q122548795

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 906353. 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.