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Naranjos, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87734. It lies near Los Naranjos Peak. The Survey maps it on the Mora Ranch quadrangle.

Naranjos within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Naranjos between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16,986 acres in total. 26 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
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2000Natural15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBLATTMAN
5 September 2001Natural3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionUNION
15 September 2017Natural2.5 acresLas Vegas DistrictDOMINIC
7 August 2012Natural10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWHITE
3 August 2000Natural800 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMESA
10 August 1995Smoking1.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyTWO CAR
10 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGARCIA
9 July 2002Natural2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCEJITA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora 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 Naranjos: 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
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naranjos in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 hail. 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 2025HailNaranjos-CoCoRaHS observer near Ocate reported hail between quarter to half dollar size from a severe thunderstorm.
June 2013HailNaranjos-Hail lasted for about 45 minutes and the largest stone was the size of a quarter.

Every storm recorded in Mora 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
Ocate3.6 miles11
Halls Peak (historical)6.9 miles11
Los Huerros7.2 miles11
Los LeFebres7.4 miles11
Ojo Feliz10.1 miles11
Los Cocas12.7 miles10
La Jara13.1 miles10
Guadalupita13.6 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 Q122591885The 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 915869. 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.