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Weed, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Southeast Otero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88354. The Survey maps it on the Sacramento quadrangle. 67 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,047 feet above sea level.

Weed within Otero County

On record in Weed

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Weed grew from 63 to 67 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201063
202067+4 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Weed between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,501 acres in total. 47 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
Natural47
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestSEEP
21 September 2011Natural12 acresLincoln National ForestBLUE WATER
7 August 2019Natural1.5 acresCapitan District20-50340160X
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestEHART
3 August 2019Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestHAY
3 August 2012Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestBELL II
3 August 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWEED
25 August 2005Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestWITHOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Weed: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
State Hwy Pit No. 63-8-SStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Otero County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weed in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015HailWeed-The person that reported golf ball size hail in Weed said it appeared to be more extensive toward the town of Sacramento.
August 2007HailWeed-A stationary thunderstorm dropped heavy rain and quarter size hail on the town of Weed.
June 2000Flash FloodWeed-Heavy rain resulted in a 4 foot wall of water descending down a canyon within a burn area.
June 2007HailWeed-no account filed
July 2005HailWeed-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otero 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
Sacramento2.4 miles11
Mayhill6.4 miles9
Maxon6.9 miles11
Hortonville7.6 miles11
Avis7.8 miles8
Crisp7.8 miles8
Chippeway Park12.4 miles11
Wimsatt12.6 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on WeedAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7979323The 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 912202. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.