Palma, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88321. It stands on Palma Hill. The Survey maps it on the Palma quadrangle.

Palma within Torrance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Palma quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Palma between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,576 acres in total. 4 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Fireworks	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
28 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TALL PINE
3 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Bernalillo District	ENCINOSA DRAW
23 July 2016	Natural	116 acres	Rio Puerco Field Office	LOBO RANCH
22 June 2008	Natural	3,000 acres	Bernalillo District	BAR S
15 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Rio Puerco Field Office	MM 234
12 June 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	225 FIRE
7 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	229
30 May 2004	Smoking	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	226

Every fire recorded in Torrance County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Palma: 5 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
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Torrance County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palma 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
August 2008	Hail	Palma	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Torrance 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
North Lucy	10.4 miles	6
Clines Corners	11.0 miles	12
Derramadero	12.5 miles	6
Negra	22.0 miles	6
Encino	22.6 miles	6
Estancia Ranchettes	24.0 miles	7
Carnero	24.8 miles	6
Pedernal	25.5 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 918284. 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.