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House, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the House-Forrest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88121. The Survey maps it on the House quadrangle. 56 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,705 feet above sea level.

House within Quay County

Population over time

3 figures

House fell from 72 to 56 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
200072
201068-4 (-6%)
202056-12 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Baca-Goodman House, Third & Aber Streets, Tucumcari, Quay County, NM
Baca-Goodman House, Third & Aber Streets, Tucumcari, Quay County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of House between 1994 and 2016, burning about 1,180 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined11
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
17 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEE
8 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROBBERSON
30 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionELLIS
28 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFRANKLIN
17 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPEACOCK
11 July 2011Natural20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARROW
28 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCABALLO
25 June 2001Natural1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARROW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Quay 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 House: 6 unknowns. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Quay County

Storms near this place

41 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names House in 41 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 21 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHouse$10,000High winds between 700 and 730 pm MST ripped telephone polls in half and broke tree branches 8 to 12 inches in diameter. Electrical power was out for about 7 hours.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHouse$3,000Large tree limbs were snapped off of trees.
July 2021HailHouse$2,000A CoCoRaHS observer in House reported nickel size hail with a strong thunderstorm tracking southward through the area. The observer also reported some minor damage with dents in their car from the hail. Damages are estimated for the car dents.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHouse$1,000Four inch diameter tree limbs were downed in the town of House.
May 2015HailHouse$500Estimated quarter size hail damaged the screen doors on the west side of the house.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHouse-A trained spotter just east of House in Quay County reported broken tree branches of about 5 inches in diameter around her house caused by damaging wind gusts from a cluster of severe thunderstorms.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHouse-Trained spotter in House in southern Quay County reported an estimated wind gust of 65 mph and small broken tree limbs and branches from a cluster of severe thunderstorms.
June 2023HailHouse-A supercell moved east from Guadalupe County into Quay County and produced 2 inch size hail 7 miles west of House.
May 2021HailHouse-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail from a strong thunderstorm near House.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHouse-Peak wind gust up to 59 mph at the House schoolnet site.
May 2017HailHouse-Hail up to the size of golf balls west of House.
May 2017HailHouse-Penny size hail at the NM Wind Energy Center.
May 2017Heavy RainHouse-Radar estimates and surface observations indicated an area of very heavy rainfall associated with a collapsing thunderstorm near House. Employees at the New Mexico Wind Energy Center observed large areas of standing water the following morning.
May 2016Flash FloodHouse-State Road 252 north and east of House closed due to severe flooding over the roadway. House reported 3.18 inches of rainfall in around 2 hours.
May 2016HailHouse-Nickel size hail with torrential rainfall in House.
May 2015Heavy RainHouse-A schoolnet site in House reported a 1-day total rainfall of 3.4 inches.
July 2014Heavy RainHouse-One mile north of House reported 4.25 inches of rainfall and minor flooding.
September 2014Heavy RainHouse-COOP Observer recorded 3 inches of rain.
September 2014Heavy RainHouse-Schoolnet site recorded 3.60 inches of rain.
September 2014Heavy RainHouse-Schoolnet site recorded 3.64 inches of rain during the late evening hours.
September 2014Funnel CloudHouse-Spotter called in and reported that there was a brief funnel cloud with thunderstorms at his location.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHouse-House Schoolnet.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHouse-Wind gust was estimated from a trained spotter.
June 2012HailHouse-Nickel size hail reported 2 miles east of House.
June 2012HailHouse-Nickel size hail reported 1 mile southeast of House.
June 2012HailHouse-Half dollar size hail reported in House.
June 2012HailHouse-Quarter size hail reported 1 mile northwest of House.
June 2012HailHouse-Quarter size hail reported 1 mile north of House.
June 2012HailHouse-Quarter size hail reported 7 miles west of House.
July 2009HailHouse-There was lots of pea to dime size hail with a few up to the size of golf balls.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHouse-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust seven miles west of House.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHouse-A wind gust to 60 mph was recorded at the SchoolNet site in House.
February 2009HailHouse-Report relayed by Channel 7 in Amarillo, TX.
June 2014HailHouse-no account filed
June 2010HailHouse-no account filed
July 2009HailHouse-no account filed
June 2009HailHouse-no account filed
May 2008HailHouse-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHouse-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindHouse-no account filed
June 1998HailHouse-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Quay 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
Ford (historical)5.1 miles7
McAlister7.5 miles7
Hassell7.6 miles6
Jordan10.6 miles6
Hartford (historical)11.9 miles6
Ragland14.9 miles7
Kirk (historical)15.5 miles7
Forrest19.0 miles7

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 HouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2142615The 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 923486. 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.