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Wilna, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hurley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88045. The Survey maps it on the Gage NW quadrangle.

Wilna within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wilna between 1992 and 2014, burning about 885 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
19 September 2007Smoking2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
9 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM49-10
20 August 2000Smoking1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM52-I10
7 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM52-10
11 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMP 65
10 July 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionI-10 MM 58
8 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionI-10 MM 75
23 June 1995Smoking250 acresLas Cruces Field Office49ER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wilna: 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilna in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWilna-An off-duty NWS employee estimated wind gusts of 60-70 mph 10 miles west of Gage.
September 2017HailWilna-Golf ball sized hail about 3 miles north of Hachita.
August 2014Heavy RainWilna-A Cooperative Observer reported 1.12 inches of rain fell quickly in Hachita and caused some street flooding in town.
July 2013Flash FloodWilna-A spotter in Hachita reported an inch and a half to 2 inches of rain in 45 minutes which produced street flooding throughout Hachita. A mesonet site near Hachita reported a total of 2.33 inches of rain within 2 hours.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Separ9.9 miles9
Brockman14.5 miles9
Vista19.9 miles14
Minero20.2 miles14
Hachita20.4 miles15
Pothook21.1 miles14
Gold Hill (historical)22.3 miles10
Old Hachita22.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899998. 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.