Grier, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clovis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88101. The Survey maps it on the Saint Vrain quadrangle.

Grier within Curry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Portair quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS St Vrain quadrangle1:24000

Photographs

2 photographs, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Grier, New Mexico. Passing through the town on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Trailers occupied by the workers from a nearby war plant
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Grier between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3,854 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	22
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LANDSFORD
23 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DEAN'S
3 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TUCKER
28 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MELROSE
25 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RURAL
18 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,500 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HERNDON
1 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ST. VRAIN
6 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SANTA FE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grier: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Grier Pit	Limestone, General	Producer	Caliche
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 65-60-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 65-61-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 67-34-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Curry 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
Saint Vrain	4.8 miles	8
Portair	5.1 miles	8
Gallaher	5.4 miles	8
Ranchvale	7.1 miles	8
Clovis	10.3 miles	9
Melrose	12.5 miles	7
Claud	17.2 miles	7
Field	17.5 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915831. 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.