BlockLone Wolf, New Mexico
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Northeast Chaves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. It lies near Railroad Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Lone Wolf quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 printed sheetsMatched 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Lone Wolf quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lone Wolf between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,105 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 500 acres | Capitan District | 21-50480254X |
| 14 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | EARL |
| 9 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SOUTHARD |
| 28 April 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 78 acres | Roswell Field Office | MOUNTAIN |
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 332 acres | Roswell Field Office | MESQUITE 2 |
| 7 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Roswell Field Office | MATHIS |
| 22 March 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Roswell Field Office | MESCALERO SANDS |
| 13 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Roswell Field Office | CURLEW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robertson Wells | 4.4 miles | 5 | |
| Beatty Wells | 6.3 miles | 5 | |
| Boaz | 7.6 miles | 5 | |
| Vest Wells | 8.4 miles | 5 | |
| Elkins | 11.4 miles | 8 | |
| Corner Well | 11.6 miles | 5 | |
| Campbell | 19.8 miles | 8 | |
| Olive | 20.7 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899733. 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.