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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Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Yeso quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
4 photographs, 1943Taken 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.
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
7 since 1997Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1,900 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HISEL |
| 26 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LEON |
| 7 June 2006 | Natural | 40 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 26 June 2016 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Capitan District | ATHEN COMPLEX |
| 21 June 2010 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Capitan District | RIDLEY |
| 18 June 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 8.0 acres | Capitan District | FENCE LINE |
| 20 May 2006 | Natural | 2.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Hail | Yeso | $30,000 | Billard ball size hail damaged cars along Highway 60 east of Yeso. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yeso | $1,000 | A 10 inch diameter tree was snapped in half from estimated 70 to 80 mph winds. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yeso | $500 | Several three to four inch tree branches were snapped off. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Yeso | - | A COOP observer 2 mile south of Yeso observed quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Yeso | - | A COOP observer 7 miles east northeast of Yeso observed 1.5 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Yeso | - | Half dollar size hail was reported east of Yeso. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Yeso | - | A trained spotter near Yeso reported golf-ball size hail that lasted about five minutes from a severe thunderstorm. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Yeso | - | A trained spotter estimated one inch hail from a severe thunderstorm in Yeso. |
| October 2017 | Flash Flood | Yeso | - | Four to six inches of rainfall produced flash flooding in the Alamogordo Creek and Salado Creek drainages. Numerous low water crossings flooded. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Yeso | - | Hail up to the size of pennies knocked some leaves off the trees. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Yeso | - | Hail up to the size of nickels. Heavy rainfall created areas of standing water. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Yeso | - | Quarter size hail near Yeso. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Yeso | - | Nickel hail near Yeso. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Yeso | - | 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 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Yeso | - | Deputies reported a brief landspout tornado over open rangeland near Yeso. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Yeso | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Yeso | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Largo | 5.4 miles | 6 | |
| Evanola | 6.3 miles | 7 | |
| Buchanan (historical) | 9.7 miles | 6 | |
| Guadalupe | 12.1 miles | 7 | |
| Ricardo (historical) | 12.4 miles | 7 | |
| Salado | 14.7 miles | 7 | |
| Agudo | 16.4 miles | 7 | |
| Lake Sumner | 17.7 miles | 7 |
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 Yeso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8052923 | 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 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.



