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Pine Lodge, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Capitan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88316. It lies near Boy Scout Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Arabela quadrangle.

Pine Lodge within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Pine Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,536 acres in total. 55 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
Natural55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 2015Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestSUNSET
8 August 2019Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestMICHALLAS
8 August 1998Natural65 acresLincoln National Forest7 CABINS
7 August 2011Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestCABIN
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLincoln National Forestnot named
6 August 2011Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestZEUFELDT
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestSAWMILL
5 August 2012Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestSMOKEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pine Lodge: 6 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Uranium, Uranium, Thorium. 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
Arabela Mines Mn MineManganese, SilverPast Producer1959
Copeland Canyon ProspectUranium, Iron, ThoriumOccurrenceMagnetite
San Pedro-Link- Nob HillUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite
Arabela Mines Inc ProspectManganeseProspect
Bear Canyon GroupUraniumPast Producer
AjaxIronProspect
BuntonIronOccurrence
MajorIronProspect
Major ProspectIronOccurrenceMagnetite
OsloIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Lodge in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2021Flash FloodPine Lodge$50,000Heavy rain near Arabela forced the closure of New Mexico State Road 246 between mile marker 29 and mile marker 31.5. The Lincoln County emergency manager reported that the flood waters washed away the pavement. Damages are estimated for the loss of the road.
May 2021HailPine Lodge-A severe thunderstorm north of Arabela began producing 1 inch hail which grew as the thunderstorm intensified. A storm chaser reported a maximum hail size of 2 inches from the severe thunderstorm.
July 2020Flash FloodPine Lodge-Eight to 12 inches of water, mud, and debris flowed over NM-246 between mile markers 30 and 31. NMDOT was dispatched to clean up the roadway.
July 2014HailPine Lodge-Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size was reported on Highway 246 by a storm chaser.
July 2014Funnel CloudPine Lodge-Rain wrapped funnel cloud reported with the hail along Highway 246.

Every storm recorded in 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Arabela4.5 miles15
Bluewater5.5 miles15
Baca (historical)8.7 miles13
Escondido (historical)9.2 miles9
Lincoln11.7 miles9
Double Crossing12.3 miles14
Encinoso13.3 miles13
San Patricio15.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 909671. 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.