Obar, New Mexico

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Logan-Nara Visa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88430. The Survey maps it on the Obar quadrangle.

Obar within Quay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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 Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Obar quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Obar between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3,592 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
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
28 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,300 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SHOENAIL
22 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	ROMO LOMO
17 June 2009	Natural	290 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WALKER
21 January 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2,000 acres	Las Vegas District	NED HOUK
21 January 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	R R

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Quay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Obar: 7 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bruhn Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	1992
Bruhn Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Bruhn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Frank May Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sand Springs	6.1 miles	5
Nara Visa	7.4 miles	4
Canode (historical)	10.0 miles	5
Anniston (historical)	12.8 miles	5
Logan	16.1 miles	5
Porter	22.8 miles	4
Hudson	25.7 miles	6
Endee	27.9 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 918270. 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.