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Lingo, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1970. It stands in the Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88113. The Survey maps it on the Lingo quadrangle. It stands 3,986 feet above sea level.

Lingo within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Lingo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 9,506 acres in total. 25 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/undetermined33
Natural25
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5

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
5 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDUNCAN
27 September 2011Natural3.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGARDNER
22 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
18 September 2019Natural74 acresCapitan District20-50730252X
9 August 2005Debris and open burning1.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHANNON
8 August 2012Natural3.7 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMILZ
8 August 2010Natural20 acresCapitan DistrictFOSTER
8 August 2005Natural11 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionASHBROOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lingo: 2 unknowns. 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lingo in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2017HailLingo$50,000Hail up to the size of golf balls produced damage to the roof and windows of a home near Lingo.
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Lingo-Broadcast media reported a brief tornado southwest of Causey.
April 2025HailLingo-A severe thunderstorm produced 1.5 inch hail 9 miles south southwest of Lingo.
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Lingo-Broadcast media reported a tornado just east of County Road 114 between Causey and Lingo next to a cattle plant.
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Lingo-Broadcast media reported another tornado just southeast of a cattle plant west of NM 114 between Causey and Lingo.
August 2013Heavy RainLingo-Observer reported 4.50 inches of rain 2 miles east of Lingo.
August 2013Heavy RainLingo-Observer reported 3.50 inches of rain 2 miles south of Lingo.
March 2007HailLingo-no account filed
May 2005HailLingo-no account filed
July 2003HailLingo-no account filed
May 1999HailLingo-no account filed
May 1999HailLingo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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
Causey6.3 miles6
Garrison6.8 miles5
Richland8.3 miles5
Longs (historical)10.7 miles6
Bluit11.6 miles6
Pep12.2 miles5
Inez12.4 miles6
New Hope (historical)13.8 miles6

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.

Wikipedia article on LingoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6553916The 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 898566. 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.