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Jones City, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Eunice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88231. The Survey maps it on the Eunice quadrangle.

Jones City within Lea County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Jones City between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2,729 acres in total. None 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/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionOVERTON
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROADSIDE
20 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPERMIAN #1
26 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTREATER
6 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHARVEY
5 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWARREN
23 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresCapitan DistrictHIGHWAY 18
2 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFIRECRACKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lea County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Jones City: 19 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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
Eunice PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
State Hwy Pit No. 59-107-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 59-108-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 59-113-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 60-49-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 73-10-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 73-2-SSand 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

4 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jones City in 4 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 4 hail. 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
April 2025HailJones City-Public reports of quarter size hail near the Loves gas station on the east side of Eunice. Time is estimated from radar.
April 2025HailJones City-A storm chaser reported half dollar sized hail along NM 176 near the state line. Time is estimated from radar.
November 2024HailJones City-Pictures from a storm chaser on social media showed three-inch diameter hail.
May 2023HailJones 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
Eunice2.9 miles6
Oil Center7.5 miles7
Maypens7.7 miles6
Warren9.6 miles5
Nadine10.6 miles5
Monument12.9 miles5
Hobbs16.0 miles5
Arkansas Junction19.6 miles5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899690. 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.