BlockRobertson Wells, New Mexico
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Northeast Chaves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. The Survey maps it on the Curlew Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Curlew Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Robertson Wells between 1992 and 2019, burning about 677 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Roswell Field Office | MITCHELL |
| 21 August 2010 | Natural | 200 acres | Roswell Field Office | MOOREHEAD |
| 14 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | EARL |
| 5 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Roswell Field Office | FREEDOM |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Capitan District | RIM 374 |
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 332 acres | Roswell Field Office | MESQUITE 2 |
| 18 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Roswell Field Office | LINGO |
| 12 April 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Roswell Field Office | MM378 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatty Wells | 2.4 miles | 5 | |
| Boaz | 3.7 miles | 5 | |
| Lone Wolf | 4.4 miles | 5 | |
| Elkins | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Vest Wells | 12.6 miles | 5 | |
| Campbell | 15.9 miles | 8 | |
| Corner Well | 15.9 miles | 5 | |
| Olive | 18.4 miles | 8 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122560874 | The 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 898845. 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.