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Guy, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clayton North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88418. The Survey maps it on the Guy quadrangle.

Guy within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Guy between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,122 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
8 July 2019Natural2.0 acresCimarron District20-20080041X
24 July 2016Natural50 acresCimarron DistrictECHO CANYON
10 July 2011Natural3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROCK LEDGE
9 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPENA
15 April 2016Natural1,065 acresCimarron DistrictARIZONA PASTURE
20 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Guy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arnett PitLimestone, GeneralProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guy in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2008Flash FloodGuy$10,000County road B18 was damaged due to the Travesser Creek overflowing its banks.

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
Corrumpa (historical)4.6 miles8
Cuates (historical)6.1 miles8
Willow Springs (historical)8.0 miles8
Atencio16.5 miles8
Grenville18.1 miles8
Mount Dora20.6 miles8
Grande20.7 miles8
Seneca20.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898787. 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.