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Moses, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clayton North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88415. It lies near Rinker Draw. The Survey maps it on the Moses quadrangle.

Moses within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Moses between 2000 and 2019, burning about 1,116 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
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 June 2019Natural5.5 acresCimarron District19-20590491X
15 April 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresCimarron DistrictWOLFE
10 February 2000Natural1,100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBLIND GAP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Moses: 2 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit #56 43 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moses in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2020Flash FloodMoses$30,000A severe thunderstorm that moved eastward along the New Mexico and Colorado border produced heavy rain in northern Union County. The heavy rain produced flash flooding on the Dry Cimarron River along Highway 456. A trained spotter reported that a bridge on the highway was washed out, and the roadway was closed. No injuries were reported, and damage amounts are a rough estimate.
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Moses-A thunderstorm near Moses produced a brief tornado as it tracked eastward. No damage was reported.
July 2019HailMoses-Hail up to the size of golf balls reported near Moses.
July 2017Flash FloodMoses-Torrential rainfall for several hours produced a 17 feet rise on the Dry Cimarron River at the Kenton, Oklahoma gauge in just four hours. Several ranchers in northern Union County were unable to get home due to flooded roadways along the river.
July 2017FloodMoses-The Dry Cimarron River experienced a near record flood event from torrential rainfall that fell over the watershed for several hours on the evening of July 30, 2017. The gauge at Kenton, Oklahoma peaked at 22.31 feet. This was just 0.01 feet shy of the all-time record of 22.32 feet set in 1965. Ranchers were unable to get home due to flood waters along the river.
May 2016HailMoses-Severe hailstorm with largest at half dollar size near Moses.
May 2016HailMoses-Quarter size hail on Highway 406.
August 2013Flash FloodMoses-State highway 406 between mile marker 18 and 19 is impassible.
June 2008HailMoses-Golf ball size hail along highway 456 and 406.
July 1994HailMoses-Nickel-size hail was reported by local storm spotters.
July 2000HailMoses-no account filed
June 1998HailMoses-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
McNees Crossing1.4 miles9
Old Moses2.2 miles9
Atencio5.4 miles8
Seneca6.8 miles9
Cuates (historical)14.9 miles8
Clayton19.1 miles8
Royce20.5 miles9
Guy21.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 908924. 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.