Garcia, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clayton South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88415. The Survey maps it on the Garcia Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Garcia within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Garcia Creek quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Garcia (historical) between 1997 and 2016, burning about 528 acres in total. 4 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	4
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
1 August 2016	Natural	7.5 acres	Cimarron District	POLING
7 July 2016	Natural	80 acres	Cimarron District	CLAPHAM
15 July 2010	Natural	14 acres	Cimarron District	ZURICK
18 June 2009	Natural	226 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CAR TOP
8 March 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Miera	5.2 miles	7
Beenham	7.3 miles	7
Tate (historical)	11.6 miles	7
Pennington	11.8 miles	7
Thomas	13.2 miles	7
Hayden	18.5 miles	4
Bates	19.0 miles	8
Sedan	20.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902032. 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.