McAlister, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the House-Forrest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88427. The Survey maps it on the McAlister quadrangle. It stands 4,724 feet above sea level.

McAlister within Quay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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 Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Mc Alister quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of McAlister between 1994 and 2016, burning about 32,738 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	7
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 August 2016	Natural	80 acres	Las Vegas District	RUSH
7 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROBINSON
12 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LEE
5 June 2011	Natural	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ADAMS
18 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32,243 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WINDY
19 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NOLAN
14 April 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FRIDAY
22 March 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MOON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Quay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of McAlister: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Quay 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
Ford (historical)	2.8 miles	7
House	7.5 miles	6
Jordan	8.0 miles	6
Kirk (historical)	9.1 miles	7
Ragland	9.2 miles	7
Forrest	11.7 miles	7
Hassell	13.1 miles	6
Cowan (historical)	14.3 miles	7

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 McAlister	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6799896	The 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 898570. 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.