BlockRamon, New Mexico
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Corona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88136. The Survey maps it on the Ramon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ramon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ramon between 1998 and 2020, burning about 328 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2000 | Natural | 320 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FROST |
| 6 July 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | RAMON |
| 8 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Capitan District | REST AREA |
| 20 June 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MURPHY |
| 23 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 21 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Capitan District | 20-51380536X |
| 3 March 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Roswell Field Office | MM 170 |
| 14 February 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | REYNOLDS |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ramon: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramon in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Hail | Ramon | 1 hurt | Five vehicles were disabled on U.S. Highway 285 and one occupant sustained cuts to her arms. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Ramon | - | A storm chaser shared a video on social media of a tornado near the ghost town of Lon, NM along NM Highway 247. The tornado was in a very remote area causing no damage to structures or crops, and was reported to have lasted five to ten minutes. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Ramon | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Ramon | - | no account filed |
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 899864. 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.