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Reserve, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Reserve census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87830. It lies near Starkweather Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Reserve quadrangle. 293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,774 feet above sea level.

Reserve within Catron County

Population over time

2 figures

Reserve grew from 289 to 293 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010289
2020293+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Reserve between 1992 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 10 were 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
Natural72
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3

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
28 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGila National ForestFISHER
12 September 2012Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestHIGHLOWER
9 August 2009Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestKEKO
9 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
8 August 1993Natural3.0 acresGila National Forestnot named
7 August 1995Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestBLUE
4 August 1994Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
31 August 1997Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestDUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catron County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Reserve: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 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
S. U. Canyon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Starkweather PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Catron County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reserve in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 4 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Flash FloodReserve$150,000Heavy damage was reported at the Catron County Fairgrounds following torrential rain of 2.5 inches in about an hour. Early warnings from the National Weather Service allowed county officials to evacuate 6 homes well ahead of the water and debris flow. Unusual for western New Mexico, this severe storm also produced large hail.
July 2018Flash FloodReserve$50,000Torrential rainfall forced mud, rocks, and debris across roadways. Law enforcement reported damage to dirt roads with significant erosion in the area. Damage amounts are a very rough estimate.
August 1999Flash FloodReserve-Rocks and mud swept across several roads between Reserve and Glenwood.
August 2006Flash FloodReserve-no account filed
August 1998HailReserve-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Catron 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
San Francisco Plaza1.4 miles14
Lower San Francisco Plaza3.8 miles14
Rancho Grande Estates5.8 miles14
Cruzville8.1 miles13
Potato Patch8.5 miles14
Apache Creek10.9 miles13
Aspen Mountain11.1 miles15
Luna12.7 miles14

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 ReserveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q512561The 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 923657. 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.