BlockOscura, New Mexico
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Carrizozo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88301. It lies near Milagro Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oscura quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Three Rivers quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Oscura quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tucson Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Oscura quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oscura between 1994 and 2018, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 1 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Capitan District | SPOT |
| 12 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | OSCURA |
| 6 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TRASH |
| 16 April 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ZOZO |
| 5 March 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TRUCK |
| 13 October 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | OSCURO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oscura in 1 storm report in 2004: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2004 | Hail | Oscura | - | Hail to one inch diameter reported as covering the ground at the old Oscura Army Air Field in southwest Lincoln 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923639. 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.