BlockTorrance, New Mexico
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88318. The Survey maps it on the Corona North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Corona quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Corona North quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Corona North quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
3 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Torrance between 1995 and 2020, burning about 132 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 | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Bernalillo District | CAMIONES |
| 23 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAMAL |
| 16 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HOLLAMON |
| 4 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TORRANCE |
| 15 June 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-61800661X |
| 15 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 19-60880425X |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 911755. 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.