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Orange, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the South Doña Ana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88008. The Survey maps it on the Strauss quadrangle.

Orange within Doña Ana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

14 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Orange between 2012 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
4 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARDNER
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA JUNTA
31 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-0629
3 May 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAILROAD FIRE
7 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance6.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDONIPHAN
6 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMORRILL
2 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMORRILL
4 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIMOTHY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana 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
Santa Teresa0.4 miles14
Lizard2.7 miles14
Strauss3.3 miles14
Mastodon4.1 miles14
Sunland Park5.3 miles18
La Union Vieja5.8 miles15
La Union6.3 miles15
Anapra6.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920656. 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.