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Vest Wells, New Mexico

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

Vest Wells within Chaves 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Vest Wells between 1994 and 2018, burning about 885 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 2010Natural3.0 acresCapitan DistrictKIZER #15
7 August 2011Natural26 acresRoswell Field OfficeWATTS
23 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeHANOVER
28 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJEAN
25 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWHITELAKE
16 July 2009Natural450 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTIPTON
11 July 2011Natural30 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionNOGEEZI
27 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGLENN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaves County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vest Wells: 1 unknown. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Chaves 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Corner Well3.7 miles5
Lone Wolf8.4 miles5
Robertson Wells12.6 miles5
Beatty Wells14.7 miles5
Boaz16.0 miles5
Elkins19.3 miles8
Campbell26.4 miles8
Olive28.2 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122562532The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898705. 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.