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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.

Hondo within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

59 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.4 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEDILLO
9 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALAMO
9 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFELIZ
5 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM 104
4 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCIRCLE
4 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROSE
17 July 2017Natural1.1 acresCapitan DistrictALAMO
4 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCARMICHEAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rio Hondo and Rio Ruidoso Valley Gypsum DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2014Flash FloodHondo-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 2010HailHondo-no account filed
July 2009HailHondo-no account filed
May 2008HailHondo-no account filed
June 2007HailHondo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Tinnie2.6 miles9
San Patricio3.3 miles9
Picacho7.1 miles9
Escondido (historical)7.2 miles9
Lincoln9.4 miles9
Glencoe9.6 miles9
Sunset10.9 miles9
Baca (historical)11.4 miles13

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 HondoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5892857The 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.