Negra, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88321. The Survey maps it on the Negra quadrangle.

Negra within Torrance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Negra quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:100000

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 Negra between 1995 and 2019, burning about 766 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	3.6 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WELDER FIRE
8 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CRUSHER
17 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MCLAUGHLIN
9 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	700 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HIGHWAY 60
4 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bernalillo District	19-60750363X
14 April 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NEGRA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Torrance 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 Negra: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Pedernal Quarry	Stone	Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Torrance 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Encino	4.1 miles	6
Pedernal	6.0 miles	6
Carnero	8.4 miles	6
Dummoor	9.2 miles	6
Culebra	12.3 miles	6
North Lucy	13.5 miles	6
Duran	15.5 miles	6
Derramadero	15.6 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899811. 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.