Lea, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hobbs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88231. The Survey maps it on the Lea quadrangle.

Lea 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.

1954 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Laguna Gatuna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lea quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lea between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,380 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	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1

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
20 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	SPOT
2 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	EARLY
27 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RANCH
27 June 1994	Natural	180 acres	Roswell Field Office	PIPELINE
27 May 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Capitan District	176
21 May 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Roswell Field Office	CATTLEDRIV
11 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	201 acres	Capitan District	HOT DAYS
5 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	268 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lea 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 Lea: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Potassium, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lea Mine	Potassium, Uranium	Past Producer	1965, 1981
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Halfway	10.9 miles	6
Oil Center	14.5 miles	7
Arkansas Junction	15.4 miles	5
Monument	15.9 miles	5
Buckeye	19.4 miles	5
Eunice	20.7 miles	6
Warren	21.3 miles	5
Jones City	21.9 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898565. 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.