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Ojo Feliz, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87735. It lies near Cerro del Amole. The Survey maps it on the Ojo Feliz quadrangle. It stands 7,539 feet above sea level.

Ojo Feliz within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Ojo Feliz between 1995 and 2020, burning about 20,180 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2019Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas District20-40280241X
31 August 2009Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLA JARA
30 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSKIPPY
24 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMUFFLER
14 August 2017Natural2.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictELK FIRE
14 August 2011Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJOJOLLA
12 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBUENA VISTA
1 August 2013Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictBULL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ojo Feliz in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 2007HailOjo Feliz$600The hail broke two windows in a home.
September 2025HailOjo Feliz-A trained spotter in Ojo Feliz observed nickel size hail from a strong thunderstorm.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindOjo Feliz-Peak wind gusts up to 60 mph in Ojo Feliz.
September 2014Flash FloodOjo Feliz-Trained spotter reported that County Road 3 was impassable due to flood waters and water inundated the lobby of the post office.
August 2025HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
June 2014Funnel CloudOjo Feliz-no account filed
September 2014HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
September 2014HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
August 2009HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
June 2008HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
June 2008HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
August 2007HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
May 2006HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
June 2005HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
June 2002HailOjo Feliz-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Ojo Feliz-no account filed

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
La Jara3.5 miles10
Los Medinas5.6 miles10
Los Cisneros6.0 miles10
Los Cocas6.3 miles10
Lucero6.5 miles10
El Turquillo7.2 miles12
Los Huerros7.2 miles11
Rainsville7.3 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on Ojo FelizAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19818345The 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 899819. 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.

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.