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Pep, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88126. The Survey maps it on the Pep quadrangle. It stands 4,236 feet above sea level.

Pep within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Pep between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,860 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
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
29 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined750 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionEVANS
22 September 2011Natural45 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionKIZER 33
9 August 2001Natural5.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTALLY
7 August 2001Natural30 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWEIR
7 August 2001Natural90 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
4 August 2002Debris and open burning250 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMUSICK
15 August 2000Debris and open burning200 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWADE
10 August 2010Natural21 acresCapitan DistrictFULLERTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt 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 Pep: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pep in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPep$10,000The Roosevelt County Emergency Manager reported downed utility poles at South County Road 33 and South County Road P. Wind speed is an estimate based on damage.
July 2021HailPep-A trained spotter near Pep reported one inch hail from a severe thunderstorm tracking eastward through the area.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Pep-A storm chaser observed a brief tornado touchdown ahead of an approaching supercell thunderstorm to the southwest of Pep. The tornado structure was observed as a funnel cloud with dirt swirling around as the ground rotation.
May 2017HailPep-Hail up to the size of quarters one mile south of Pep in association with a tornado warned thunderstorm.
May 2015HailPep-A public spotter posted a picture on Twitter of hail estimated to be the size of a golf ball, perhaps even larger.
May 2015HailPep-A few quarter size hailstones mixed in with predominately dime size hailstones near Pep.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPep-High winds from a thunderstorm bent over some trees.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPep-Report of 4 inch diameter elm tree branches downed.
August 2013Heavy RainPep-Spotter reported 3.10 inches of rain 6 miles southeast of Pep.
August 2013Heavy RainPep-Spotter reported 5.10 inches of rainfall 7 miles south southeast of Pep.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Pep-The tornado touched down for 1 minute near the intersection of County Road 24 and County Road X.
May 2023HailPep-no account filed
June 2014HailPep-no account filed
August 2004HailPep-no account filed
June 2003HailPep-no account filed
June 1999HailPep-no account filed
May 1999HailPep-no account filed
May 1999HailPep-no account filed
April 1997HailPep-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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
Richland3.8 miles5
New Hope (historical)4.6 miles6
Garrison6.6 miles5
Dora7.1 miles6
Longs (historical)8.9 miles6
Red Lake (historical)9.0 miles6
Causey11.5 miles6
Rogers11.5 miles6

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 PepAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7166180The 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 898584. 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.