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Greenfield, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Dexter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88230. The Survey maps it on the Dexter East quadrangle.

Greenfield within Chaves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 720 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined18
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
17 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLINCOLN
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreBitter Lake National Wildlife RefugeHATCHERY COMPLEX
4 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouthwestern Native Aquatic Resources & Recovery CenterHATCHERY
25 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresRoswell Field OfficeOJIBWA 2
15 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionONEMILECURVE
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeCHISUM
3 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use17 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRELIEF
2 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCapitan DistrictWICHITA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaves County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Greenfield: 1 past producer, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Chaves County

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenfield in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 5 hail, 4 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenfield$100,000A roof was ripped off of a dairy barn and windows were blown out of a nearby house along Ojibwa Road and U.S. Highway 285. Damage amounts are a rough estimate for roof and window damage.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGreenfield$20,000Power lines downed from high winds resulted in power outage at the Roswell Correctional Facility between Hagerman and Dexter.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGreenfield$20,000A large tree was blown over onto a pick-up truck east of Dexter.
October 2004HailGreenfield$20,000no account filed
May 2021HailGreenfield-A trained spotter near Greenfield reported nickel size hail from a supercell thunderstorm that tracked eastward through the area.
May 2019HailGreenfield-Nickel size hail reported at Ojibwa Road and NM-2.
June 2019HailGreenfield-Hail up to two inches in diameter at the intersection of U.S. 285 and NM-559.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-A large tree was blown over onto the roadway near Lake Van east of Dexter.
September 2014HailGreenfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chaves 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
Lake Van2.0 miles9
Dexter2.5 miles9
Hagerman3.7 miles8
Chisum7.6 miles9
Mossman7.7 miles8
Blackdom (historical)8.5 miles8
Midway10.4 miles9
South Mill10.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898786. 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.