BlockVarney, 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
Fires near this place
13 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Varney between 1993 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 3 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 | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
| 11 July 2011 | Natural | 54 acres | Cibola National Forest | CORONA MESA |
| 4 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TORRANCE |
| 21 June 2010 | Natural | 113 acres | Cibola National Forest | CORONA |
| 2 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CORONA |
| 29 May 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | WOODSON |
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 912078. 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.