BlockJoffre, New Mexico
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Vaughn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88353. The Survey maps it on the Gacho Hill quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Corona quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Gacho Hill quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Joffre between 1996 and 2016, burning about 14,520 acres in total. 2 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2016 | Natural | 50 acres | Las Vegas District | TEN MILE |
| 18 July 2000 | Natural | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LOBO |
| 9 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BURGETTE |
| 15 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,000 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LUMBRE |
| 23 March 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PEREZ |
| 7 February 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 548 acres | Roswell Field Office | BFUN |
| 6 February 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,920 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DOMINIC |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898801. 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.