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Humble City, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1969. It stands in the Hobbs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88240. The Survey maps it on the Humble City quadrangle.

Humble City within Lea County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

96 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Humble City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,331 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPLAINFIELD
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROLLINGMEADO
30 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALABAMA
20 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRUSSEL ST
28 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionAULD
26 August 2004Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRUNNELS
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCapitan District20-50460182X
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionELLIOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lea County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Humble City: 16 unknowns, 1 past producer. 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
Lea Co. Road Dept Pit CarlileSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Old Tomco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
State Hwy Pit No 56-107-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 70-4-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Thomason PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Un. Grav. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Un. Grav. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Un. Grav. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Un. Grav. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Un. Grav. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lea County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humble City in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
May 2023Thunderstorm WindHumble City$500,000Damage location estimated from Emergency Manager report. Damage includes approximately 300 cow hutches blown to the northeast, dozens of cattle fatalities, multiple irrigation pivots overturned, and multiple buildings with roof damage. The estimated wind speeds were 110 mph. Property damage cost is a rough estimation.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHumble City$10,000A thunderstorm moved across Lea County and produced wind damage. Telephone poles were blown down on Highway 18 between Lovington and Hobbs. The cost of damage is a rough estimate.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHumble City$8,000A storm moved across Lea County and produced wind damage northwest of Hobbs. A local storm spotter reported building damage and power lines down near the intersection of Bensing and Lawrence Roads. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
June 2014Funnel CloudHumble City-A thunderstorm moved across Lea County and produced two funnel clouds west of Halfway.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHumble City-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHumble City-no account filed
June 2016HailHumble City-no account filed
June 2014HailHumble City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lea 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
Air Base City2.2 miles7
Knowles5.8 miles7
Hobbs7.8 miles5
Arkansas Junction9.7 miles5
Monument12.0 miles5
Lovington12.4 miles6
Nadine12.8 miles5
Warren13.4 miles5

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 Q122567476The 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 890257. 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.