Tornero, New Mexico

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Elida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. The Survey maps it on the Elida quadrangle.

Tornero within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1954 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Elida quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tornero between 1993 and 2020, burning about 639 acres in total. 6 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	14
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
2 August 2016	Natural	100 acres	Capitan District	MIDDLE
17 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM398
12 August 2011	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BOONE
5 July 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	Capitan District	20-50130065X
29 July 2001	Natural	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HOLMES
28 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM395
26 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	383
17 July 2020	Natural	3.0 acres	Capitan District	21-50260117X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Tornero: 5 unknowns, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sadler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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
Kenna	4.2 miles	5
Elida	5.3 miles	5
Home Place Well	9.0 miles	5
Kermit	10.3 miles	7
Red Lake (historical)	14.9 miles	6
Ingram (historical)	15.9 miles	6
Delphos	17.6 miles	8
Upton	19.0 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899960. 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.