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Witt, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Estancia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87016. It lies near Cienega Draw. The Survey maps it on the Estancia quadrangle.

Witt within Torrance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Witt between 1993 and 2015, burning about 1,013 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVINCE
5 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPARACHUTE
5 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIIN
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAT
30 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCONSUELO
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGATO
25 July 2000Natural80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEE
1 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJESS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Torrance County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Witt in 2 storm reports in 2008: 2 hail. 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
October 2008HailWitt-no account filed
October 2008HailWitt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Torrance 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
Antelope Springs1.0 miles10
McIntosh1.7 miles10
Estancia5.7 miles10
Moriarty10.3 miles10
Estancia Ranchettes12.8 miles7
Pine Springs12.9 miles13
Martinez13.2 miles13
Tajique13.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898613. 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.

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.