Ochoa, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Jal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88252. The Survey maps it on the Woodley Flat quadrangle.

Ochoa within Lea County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Woodley Flat quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Jal quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ochoa between 1993 and 2017, burning about 25,679 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2

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 August 2012	Natural	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MADERA DRAW
20 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HWY 128 35-50
11 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HAMMONDS
11 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROAD 21
10 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	AXLE
3 June 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	19,610 acres	Roswell Field Office	JALTWO
23 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	113 acres	Capitan District	CHEVRON
21 May 2006	Natural	120 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lea County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ochoa: 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Un. Grav. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Un. Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lea 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
Jal	14.2 miles	6
Bennett	14.9 miles	6
Maypens	19.2 miles	6
Eunice	22.6 miles	6
Oil Center	23.2 miles	7
Lea	23.3 miles	6
Jones City	25.5 miles	6
Halfway	29.4 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898580. 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.