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Separ, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hurley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88045. The Survey maps it on the Separ quadrangle. It stands 4,501 feet above sea level.

Separ within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Separ between 1992 and 2014, burning about 1,339 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined48
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
2 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM42-10
18 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNM47-10
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEPAR
18 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEPAR
9 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM42-10
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLUCKY 7
4 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionINTERSTATE
4 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRANCH

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Separ in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 1999Flash FloodSepar$100,000A weather spotter measured 4 inches of rain at Separ (between Deming and Lordsburg) from a slow moving thunderstorm. The force of the running water washed out some of a railroad bed, knocked over much of the fencing in the area, and resulted in extensive erosion damage to local roads.
October 2015Tornado (EF0)Separ-Landspout tornado reported just south of Separ.
October 2015HailSepar-Up to ping pong ball size hail on Interstate 10 about 3 miles east-southeast of Separ.
April 2004HailSepar-no account filed
September 2002Flash FloodSepar-no account filed
September 2002HailSepar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Brockman6.3 miles9
Wilna9.9 miles9
Pothook16.1 miles14
Vista16.3 miles14
Gold Hill (historical)17.3 miles10
Minero18.5 miles14
Old Hachita19.8 miles14
Hachita20.2 miles15

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 SeparAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14706106The 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 899905. 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.

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.