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Montoya, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1964. It stands in the Tucumcari census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88401. The Survey maps it on the Montoya quadrangle. It stands 4,321 feet above sea level.

Montoya within Quay County

On record in Montoya

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Montoya between 1996 and 2019, burning about 114 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined4
Natural3
Smoking1
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
1 August 2016Natural5.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictBEASLEY
5 July 2019Natural50 acresLas Vegas District20-40060037X
8 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionI40-240
7 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMONTOYA
25 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRANDELS
11 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM 12
6 May 2016Natural45 acresLas Vegas DistrictBEASLEY
1 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOUNTY LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Quay County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Montoya: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Beasley Brothers 4 ProspectUraniumOccurrence1952
Beasley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Quay County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montoya in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2025HailMontoya-A trained spotter near Montoya observed quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMontoya-Trained spotter reported severe thunderstorm wind gusts kicking up lots of dust.
May 2014HailMontoya-no account filed
August 2013HailMontoya-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMontoya-no account filed
May 2005HailMontoya-no account filed
June 2003Funnel CloudMontoya-no account filed
July 2002HailMontoya-no account filed
June 1994HailMontoya-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Palomas8.0 miles6
Hanley (historical)8.2 miles6
Ogle (historical)8.9 miles6
Hargis13.5 miles6
Tucumcari18.6 miles6
Quay19.7 miles6
Hartford (historical)23.4 miles6
Jordan24.0 miles6

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 MontoyaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14706069The 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 915865. 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.