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Gladstone, 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 88422. It stands on Wilson Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Gladstone quadrangle. It stands 5,882 feet above sea level.

Gladstone 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Gladstone between 1994 and 2020, burning about 14,972 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
1 August 2015Natural50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHEPNER RANCH
9 July 2017Natural20 acresCimarron DistrictGLADSTONE
27 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTOOTH
1 July 2011Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJEFFERS
24 June 2020Natural6.0 acresCimarron DistrictTRIANGLE RANCH
8 May 2006Equipment and vehicle use2,000 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRIPLE M

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gladstone: 1 unknown. 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

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gladstone in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 21 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2010Flash FloodGladstone$12,000Several roads were washed out around Gladstone. A house 8 miles south southeast of Gladstone had three feet of water in it and the owner had his Mercedes Benz car carried one quarter mile away by rapidly flowing water.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGladstone$5,000The roof of a barn was torn off when gusty winds moved through the area.
June 2023HailGladstone$1,000Clayton PD reported a 911 call from a person in Gladstone whose car window was fractured by large hail.
June 2025HailGladstone-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm on his ranch several miles north of U.S. 56/412 in far western Union County.
June 2023HailGladstone-Tennis ball size hail observed with supercell as it moved southeast into southwest Union County.
September 2018Tornado (EF0)Gladstone-A brief tornado touched down over rural countryside. No damage was reported.
August 2017Flash FloodGladstone-Water running over U.S. 54 within the Ute Creek drainage.
June 2014Funnel CloudGladstone-Storm chaser reported funnel cloud near Pasamonte.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Gladstone-A small tornado touched down briefly north of Gladstone.
September 1993HailGladstone-Golfball-size hail was reported by weather spotters.
June 2010HailGladstone-no account filed
July 2009HailGladstone-no account filed
July 2009HailGladstone-no account filed
August 2008HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2007HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2007HailGladstone-no account filed
May 2005HailGladstone-no account filed
May 2005HailGladstone-no account filed
May 2005HailGladstone-no account filed
July 2004HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2004HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2004HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2004HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2004HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2003HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2003HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2002HailGladstone-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Gladstone-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sofia12.7 miles7
Pennington18.0 miles7
Beenham19.0 miles7
Garcia (historical)26.2 miles7
Miera26.7 miles7
Grande27.3 miles8
Grenville27.4 miles8
Mount Dora29.6 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.

Wikipedia article on GladstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5566314The 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 898549. 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.