White Oaks, New Mexico

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

• White Oaks Historic Districtlisted 1970

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.

• 1934 USGS Capitan quadrangle1:48000
• 1934 USGS Capitan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1937 USGS Capitan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS White Oaks South quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Carrizozo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 2004 USGS White Oaks South quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of White Oaks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,133 acres in total. 37 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Manchester (historical)
• Reventon
• Coyote
• Pine Lodge
• Robsart

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of White Oaks: 21 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Oaks in 2 storm reports in 2017: 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

4 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,212 issues, 5,301 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 15 issues spread across its run from 1882 to 1903, 35,487 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 912313. 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.