Halfway, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 88240. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Gatuna quadrangle.

Halfway within Lea County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Laguna Gatuna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Laguna Gatuna quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Halfway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,073 acres in total. 2 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	16
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	LEA LAND
1 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	SEISMIC
5 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	260 acres	Roswell Field Office	TRANSWEST
20 August 2011	Natural	32 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	ACCESS
14 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	GATUNA
12 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SMITH
22 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	LAGUNA
18 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM 71

Every fire recorded in Lea County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Halfway: 7 unknowns, 4 producers, 2 plants. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Potassium, Salt. 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
National Tailings Id. No. 2901384	Salt	Producer
New Mexico Potash Corp.	Potassium, Salt	Producer	1930, 1965
Hobbs Mine	Potassium	Producer	1965, 1981
National Potash Mine	Potassium	Plant	1953, 1957
New Mexico Potash Corporation	Potassium	Producer	1965
Noranda Prospect	Potassium	Plant	1970
State Hwy Pit No. 66-44-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lea 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
Lea	10.9 miles	6
Maljamar	21.1 miles	6
Buckeye	21.1 miles	5
Arkansas Junction	22.7 miles	5
Oil Center	25.4 miles	7
Monument	25.5 miles	5
Ochoa	29.4 miles	5
Warren	31.4 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899663. 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.