Upton, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the Elida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88116. The Survey maps it on the Upton quadrangle.

Upton within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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 Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Upton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Upton between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,083 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	47 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
3 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Capitan District	20-50630226X
5 August 2011	Natural	55 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LIGHTNING
25 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	65 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	KRONE
23 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BROKEN WINDOW
2 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Capitan District	GREAT HOUSE
16 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	250 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FLIP FLOP
10 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	29 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HESSTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Floyd

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Upton: 3 unknowns. 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
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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
Floyd	5.6 miles	7
Ingram (historical)	6.6 miles	6
Benson (historical)	7.9 miles	7
Delphos	10.1 miles	8
Bethel	10.7 miles	8
Kermit	11.1 miles	7
Tinsley Crossing	12.4 miles	8
Elida	14.4 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899975. 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.