Yerba, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88130. The Survey maps it on the Bethel quadrangle.

Yerba within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Portales quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bethel quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

115 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Yerba between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,474 acres in total. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	77
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	8
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JUNK YARD
27 September 2011	Natural	197 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MULLINS
9 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	236
9 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VISAGE
3 August 2019	Natural	1.5 acres	Capitan District	20-50290142X
29 August 2000	Natural	120 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	STANDEFER
20 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	201 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MCALISTER
4 July 2020	Fireworks	5.5 acres	Capitan District	21-50070037X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Yerba: 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Eastwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Russell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tinsley Crossing	3.0 miles	8
Portales	3.1 miles	8
Bethel	7.1 miles	8
Delphos	8.2 miles	8
Midway	10.0 miles	9
Eiland (historical)	10.2 miles	9
Floyd	11.4 miles	7
Cameo	12.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898709. 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.