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Nogal, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Capitan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88341. It lies near Dry Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Nogal quadrangle.

Nogal within Lincoln County

On record in Nogal

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

84 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Nogal between 1993 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined33
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2005Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestWET
3 September 2011Natural18 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSNELL 2
21 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division569
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGUNRANGE
10 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestSPLINTER
9 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFERN
31 August 2001Natural10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTORTOLITA
26 August 2011Natural4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSNELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Nogal: 9 unknowns, 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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
American MineGold, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer1868, 1885, 1935
Baby ClaimsCopperUnknown
C and M No 1 & No 2 ClaimsSilver, GoldUnknown
Copper King No 1 MineSilver, CopperUnknown
Helen Rae MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer1885, 1937
MichiganLeadUnknown
No 1 JerryStoneUnknown
Tortolita Canyon VeinUraniumOccurrencePyrite
AmericanGold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Helen RaeGold, Lead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nogal in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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
July 2012Flash FloodNogal$25,000A partial road collapse occurred along Old Bonito Lake Rd due to flash flood undercuts and encroachments. This collapse was located about 2 miles west of the intersection with State Road 37.
August 2021Flash FloodNogal-Heavy rain near Nogal forced the closure of U.S. Highway 380 from mile marker 74 to mile marker 76. Per a trained spotter, the bridge in the area was unsafe to cross as road surfaces had been damaged from repeated rounds of heavy rain over the summer.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Nogal-A brief landspout tornado was reported over rural countryside northwest of Nogal.
June 2019HailNogal-Nickel size hail reported near Bonito Lake.
June 2019HailNogal-Quarter size hail was reported northeast of Bonito Lake.
June 2017HailNogal-A second round of storms produced quarter size hail in Capitan.
May 2017Funnel CloudNogal-Several observers around Carrizozo reported a well developed funnel cloud near Carrizo Mountain a couple miles northeast of town.
October 1998HailNogal-no account filed
August 1997HailNogal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Vera Cruz (historical)3.3 miles15
Coalora5.9 miles15
Capitan7.2 miles15
Bonito7.4 miles11
Angus8.1 miles11
Villa Madonna9.4 miles11
Sun Valley10.2 miles11
Sierra Vista10.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923634. 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.