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Mondel, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88045. The Survey maps it on the Mondel quadrangle.

Mondel within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Mondel between 1992 and 2009, burning about 60 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionI-10
24 May 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSTATE LINE
12 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM-4-10
30 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM25-10
27 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROAD FORKS
16 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSTEINS
24 March 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRR4
11 March 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHADY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mondel: 3 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
Two Unnamed Borrow PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

16 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mondel in 16 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 16 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMondel$50,000Power was out in Lordsburg area for over 30 hours. The wind created a dust storm with near zero visibility west of Lordsburg near mile marker 6 which caused a 2015 Dodge truck towing a travel trailer to rear end an 18 wheeler which had slowed down due to the conditions. One woman in the Dodge truck was killed and serious injuries were sustained to the driver of the truck.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMondel-A NMDOT site on the Lordsburg Playa recorded a peak wind gust of 71 mph.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMondel-A Mesonet station on the Lordsburg Playa near mile marker 7 reported a peak gust of 67 mph. Several other stations on the playa reported gusts of 60 to 65 mph.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMondel-The Mesonet station at mile marker 12 along Interstate 10 recorded a peak gust of 65 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMondel-An NMDOT Mesonet station near mile post 7 on Interstate 10 recorded a peak gust of 68 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMondel-An NMDOT site on the Lordsburg Playa recorded a peak gust of 61 mph which created areas of blowing dust reducing visibilities to under a half mile.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMondel-A highway department weather sensor recorded a 60 mph gust about 9 miles east-northeast of Road Forks along Interstate 10.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMondel-Occurred at mile marker 12 on Interstate 10.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMondel-Mile post 7 Mesonet site on Interstate 10.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMondel-Mesonet station at mile post 12 on Interstate 10.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMondel-Mesonet station at mile marker 11 on Interstate 10.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMondel-New Mexico DOT mesonet site located 5 miles northeast of Road Forks.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMondel-Recorded at a New Mexico DOT site 6 miles northeast of Road Forks.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMondel-Recorded at a New Mexico DOT site located 4 miles northeast of Road Forks.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMondel-New Mexico DOT site located west of Lordsburg. Some blowing dust was also reported in the vicinity.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMondel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hidalgo 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
Steins4.6 miles9
McGhee Wells5.7 miles9
Gary6.7 miles9
Leitendorf (historical)8.4 miles9
Valedon9.8 miles10
Shakespeare10.3 miles10
Cotton City12.1 miles9
Lordsburg12.5 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122542523The 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 920651. 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.