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Yeso, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West De Baca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88136. The Survey maps it on the Yeso quadrangle. It stands 4,770 feet above sea level.

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Yeso within De Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Photographs

4 photographs, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Yeso, New Mexico. Rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico
Yeso, New Mexico. Rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Yeso, New Mexico. Stopping for water along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Yeso, New Mexico. Stopping for water along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Yeso, New Mexico. Rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico
Yeso, New Mexico. Rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Yeso, New Mexico. Rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico
Yeso, New Mexico. Rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Yeso between 1997 and 2016, burning about 1,966 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 July 2005Debris and open burning1,900 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHISEL
26 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEON
7 June 2006Natural40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
26 June 2016Natural9.0 acresCapitan DistrictATHEN COMPLEX
21 June 2010Natural4.0 acresCapitan DistrictRIDLEY
18 June 2016Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresCapitan DistrictFENCE LINE
20 May 2006Natural2.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in De Baca County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yeso in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 30 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
May 1997HailYeso$30,000Billard ball size hail damaged cars along Highway 60 east of Yeso.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindYeso$1,000A 10 inch diameter tree was snapped in half from estimated 70 to 80 mph winds.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindYeso$500Several three to four inch tree branches were snapped off.
April 2025HailYeso-A COOP observer 2 mile south of Yeso observed quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm.
April 2025HailYeso-A COOP observer 7 miles east northeast of Yeso observed 1.5 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm.
August 2022HailYeso-Half dollar size hail was reported east of Yeso.
June 2022HailYeso-A trained spotter near Yeso reported golf-ball size hail that lasted about five minutes from a severe thunderstorm.
May 2021HailYeso-A trained spotter estimated one inch hail from a severe thunderstorm in Yeso.
October 2017Flash FloodYeso-Four to six inches of rainfall produced flash flooding in the Alamogordo Creek and Salado Creek drainages. Numerous low water crossings flooded.
May 2017HailYeso-Hail up to the size of pennies knocked some leaves off the trees.
May 2017HailYeso-Hail up to the size of nickels. Heavy rainfall created areas of standing water.
September 2016HailYeso-Quarter size hail near Yeso.
June 2013HailYeso-Nickel hail near Yeso.
June 2013HailYeso-Fifteen to 20 minute period of hail with largest stones ranging from half dollar to ping pong ball size near Yeso. Leaves were stripped off trees but no significant damage reported.
August 2001Tornado (F0)Yeso-Deputies reported a brief landspout tornado over open rangeland near Yeso.
September 2011HailYeso-no account filed
May 2008HailYeso-no account filed
May 2005HailYeso-no account filed
August 2004HailYeso-no account filed
August 2004HailYeso-no account filed
August 2004HailYeso-no account filed
August 2004HailYeso-no account filed
October 2004HailYeso-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindYeso-no account filed
May 2001HailYeso-no account filed
June 2000HailYeso-no account filed
May 1999HailYeso-no account filed
June 1999HailYeso-no account filed
October 1998HailYeso-no account filed
May 1997HailYeso-no account filed
May 1997HailYeso-no account filed
June 1996HailYeso-no account filed
June 1996HailYeso-no account filed
July 1996HailYeso-no account filed
June 1995HailYeso-no account filed

Every storm recorded in De Baca 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
Largo5.4 miles6
Evanola6.3 miles7
Buchanan (historical)9.7 miles6
Guadalupe12.1 miles7
Ricardo (historical)12.4 miles7
Salado14.7 miles7
Agudo16.4 miles7
Lake Sumner17.7 miles7

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.

Wikipedia article on YesoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8052923The 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 900005. 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.