Jornada, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Truth or Consequences East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87901. The Survey maps it on the Cutter quadrangle.

Jornada within Sierra County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Tucson Spring quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Engle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Truth or Consequences quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Cutter quadrangle1:24000
1996 USGS Cutter quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Jornada between 1992 and 2003, burning about 522 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
Natural	5

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
8 July 1994	Natural	5.0 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	CHAMPAGNE
3 July 1994	Natural	500 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	CUTTER
28 July 2000	Natural	12 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WADELL
16 June 2003	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	OUTLAW
23 October 1992	Natural	5.0 acres	Gila National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Engle	3.7 miles	12
Cutter	4.4 miles	12
Elephant Butte	8.2 miles	14
Elephant Butte Estates	10.2 miles	14
Hot Springs Landing	11.0 miles	14
Rock Canyon	11.6 miles	14
Truth or Consequences	11.6 miles	9
Williamsburg	13.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898560. 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.