Home Place Well, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Elida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. The Survey maps it on the Schram Lake quadrangle.

Home Place Well within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Schram Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Home Place Well between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,305 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
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BEEF
26 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	383
11 July 2010	Natural	20 acres	Capitan District	FRENCH
1 July 2019	Natural	100 acres	Capitan District	20-50040015X
21 June 2017	Natural	640 acres	Capitan District	KIZER 35
18 May 2006	Natural	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
22 April 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1,500 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FRENCH
4 February 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt 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 Home Place Well: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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
Kenna	6.9 miles	5
Tornero	9.0 miles	5
Elida	13.6 miles	5
Eagle Hill (historical)	14.8 miles	6
New Hope (historical)	17.8 miles	6
Kermit	18.1 miles	7
Red Lake (historical)	19.1 miles	6
Pep	20.6 miles	5

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 Q122561240

The 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 899674. 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.