Thunderbird, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87036. It lies near Ox Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Manzano Peak quadrangle.

Thunderbird within Torrance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1917 USGS Estancia quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Torreon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Belen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Manzano Peak quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Manzano Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Thunderbird between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,298 acres in total. 41 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
Recreation and ceremony	47
Natural	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	PARALLEL
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	CAMPFIRE / 253 B
3 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ANDERSON
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	CONSERVATION
16 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	SKID
1 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	FAWN
1 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	BONFIRE
9 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	CREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Torrance 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
La Cienega	3.7 miles	11
Los Chavez	4.0 miles	11
Chato	4.6 miles	12
Manzano	5.6 miles	12
El Gato	6.1 miles	11
Punta de Agua	6.3 miles	11
Candelaria Place	7.1 miles	12
Abo	9.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 914177. 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.