Optimo, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87752. It stands on Arroyo Tierra Blanca. The Survey maps it on the Optimo quadrangle.

Optimo within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1892 USGS Watrous quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Watrous quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Optimo quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Roy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Optimo between 1995 and 2016, burning about 581 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
16 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BABY
20 July 2016	Natural	5.0 acres	Las Vegas District	PIERDRA LUMBRE
22 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	REST
23 May 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Las Vegas District	MM372
30 March 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	575 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CRUZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Optimo: 1 unknown. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Optimo in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Hail	Optimo	-	Hail covered interstate 25 near mile marker 379. Highway crews had to use plows to remove the hail from the interstate.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ciruela	4.5 miles	13
Shoemaker	6.4 miles	13
Cherry Valley (historical)	7.1 miles	13
Valmora	8.1 miles	13
Wagon Mound	9.7 miles	8
Tiptonville	11.3 miles	13
Watrous	11.7 miles	13
Loma Parda	14.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 933087. 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.