Hondo, New Mexico
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88336. It stands on Rio Ruidoso. The Survey maps it on the San Patricio quadrangle. It stands 5,230 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS San Patricio quadrangle1:24000
- 2004 USGS San Patricio quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
59 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Hondo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,607 acres in total. 5 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 | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.4 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SEDILLO |
| 9 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ALAMO |
| 9 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FELIZ |
| 5 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MM 104 |
| 4 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CIRCLE |
| 4 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROSE |
| 17 July 2017 | Natural | 1.1 acres | Capitan District | ALAMO |
| 4 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CARMICHEAL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hondo: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Hondo and Rio Ruidoso Valley Gypsum Deposit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum |
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hondo in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 4 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Flash Flood | Hondo | - | Large rocks were swept onto US 380 due to intense runoff. The rocks were large enough that the highway department was called out to move them because they were disrupting traffic and preventing travel. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Hondo | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Hondo | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hondo | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Hondo | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tinnie | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| San Patricio | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Picacho | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Escondido (historical) | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Glencoe | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Sunset | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Baca (historical) | 11.4 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Hondo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5892857 | 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 923610. 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.






