Lizard, New Mexico

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.

• 1917 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Strauss quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Strauss quadrangle1:24000
• 1996 USGS Strauss quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lizard in 2014, burning under an acre in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lizard: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lizard in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Doña Ana County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920634. 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.