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Mesilla Park, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Las Cruces census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88005. It stands on Tortugas Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Las Cruces quadrangle.

Mesilla Park within Doña Ana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mesilla Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 101 acres 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
2 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEVEE
18 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.5 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeDEL RIO
12 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDAM FIRE
3 April 2020Debris and open burning80 acresSocorro DistrictFOG
14 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMESILLA
14 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeGLASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Mesilla Park: 10 past producers, 7 unknowns, 6 producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Las Alturas Estates WellsGeothermalUnknown
Hoffer Mn ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Manganese NoManganeseOccurrence
Materials Pit 57-8-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Materials Pit 60-46-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
JonesFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Jones and Santiago DepositFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
SantiagoFluorine-FluoriteUnknown

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mesilla Park in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMesilla Park-Several large trees blown down on NMSU campus.
June 2019Flash FloodMesilla Park-Flooding with debris was reported along Interstate 10 from mile post 145 to 151, Frontage 1035-Stern Road and Las Alturas Road. Roads had to be closed for a short while for cleanup.
May 2016HailMesilla Park-Quarter sized hail was falling in sheets at the NMSU bookstore.
May 2016HailMesilla Park-Half inch to dime size hail fell at the intersection of Carver Road and Turtle Creek Avenue.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMesilla Park-Three large trees were blown down on the NMSU campus at the married housing units.
October 2015HailMesilla Park-Hail occurred at New Mexico State University.
August 2011Flash FloodMesilla Park-New Mexico State University police reported a large amount of standing water making for hazardous travel on the eastbound lane of College between Knox and Union.
October 2015HailMesilla Park-no account filed
October 2015HailMesilla Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doña Ana 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
Tortugas0.8 miles15
University Park0.9 miles15
Four Points1.3 miles15
San Pablo1.8 miles14
Mesilla1.9 miles15
Las Cruces2.6 miles15
Fairacres4.7 miles15
Picacho5.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899786. 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.