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Garrison, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88132. The Survey maps it on the Garrison quadrangle.

Garrison within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Garrison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,268 acres in total. 27 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/undetermined46
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDUNCAN
27 September 2011Natural3.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGARDNER
9 August 2001Natural5.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTALLY
8 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionAUCTION
8 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROSS
7 August 2000Natural500 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPREWETT
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGARDNER
3 August 2015Natural5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBLAKEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt 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 Garrison: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Bluitt Sulphur PlantSulfurProducer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrison 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
June 2008HailGarrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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
Richland3.4 miles5
Causey5.0 miles6
Longs (historical)5.1 miles6
Pep6.6 miles5
Lingo6.8 miles5
Inez8.8 miles6
Dora8.9 miles6
Rogers9.1 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915828. 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.