BlockYankee, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87740. It lies near Brides Pocket. The Survey maps it on the Yankee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Raton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1914 USGS Raton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1971 USGS Yankee quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Raton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Yankee between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,541 acres in total. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SUGARITE |
| 5 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | |
| 24 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LITTLE HORSE |
| 3 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | YANKEE |
| 19 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MESA |
| 18 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BARTLETT |
| 13 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | YANKEE |
| 20 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Cimarron District | HORSE MESA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yankee: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Tondrow Peak | Pumice | Unknown |
Storms near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yankee in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Hail | Yankee | - | A severe thunderstorm produced large amounts of hail at least one inch in diameter. A commuter traveling along U.S. Highway 64 west of Capulin reported that at least three inches of hail accumulation was covering the road. |
| May 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Yankee | - | A funnel cloud was spotted just north of U.S. Highway 87 west of Capulin. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Yankee | - | A brief tornado touched down near NM-72 and moved northeast over rural countryside toward the Colorado border. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Yankee | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q112123393 | The 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 900000. 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.