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Hermanas, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Deming South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88030. It lies near Baker Draw. The Survey maps it on the Hermanas quadrangle.

Hermanas within Luna County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 10 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hermanas between 1996 and 2006, burning about 43 acres in total. None 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/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 July 2005Recreation and ceremony20 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeSISTER
10 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeWET
21 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOMPTON
17 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresLas Cruces Field Office63 SOUTH

Every fire recorded in Luna County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hermanas: 4 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gemstone, Perlite. 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
Unnamed Perlite ProspectPerliteOccurrence
Baker Egg No. 1 PlacerGemstoneProducerAgate
Hermanas Thunder Egg DepositGemstoneOccurrenceChalcedony, Quartz
Calumet MineCopperProspectVein
Johnson Ranchhouse Sec 28 ProspectCopperOccurrence
Johnson Ranchhouse Sec 33 ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Luna County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hermanas in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2021Flash FloodHermanas-NMDOT reported water flowing across Highway 9 about 19 miles west of Columbus.
October 2019Tornado (EFU)Hermanas-A picture was submitted via social media from a weather spotter showing a brief tornado northeast of Hermanas.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHermanas-The aerostat balloon site measured a 61 mph wind gust.
August 2011Flash FloodHermanas-Staff at Deming Aerostat reported water flowing across Hermanas Road. Over an inch of rain fell in a short period of time at the location according to Doppler Radar.
July 2009HailHermanas-Employees at the Deming Aerostat Site reported penny size hail.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindHermanas-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindHermanas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Luna 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
Mimbres11.0 miles11
Waterloo15.3 miles17
Cedar Grove (historical)15.6 miles9
Columbus16.6 miles17
Border City (historical)16.6 miles17
Sunshine22.5 miles14
Gage27.1 miles9
Tunis27.7 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122594145The 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 899669. 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.