Murdo, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Vega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79018. The Survey maps it on the Boys Ranch West quadrangle.

Murdo within Oldham 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.

1954 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Boys Ranch West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Hartley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Murdo between 2006 and 2020, burning about 24,107 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined	5
Smoking	5
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
2 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIT RANCH ROW
7 August 2016	Natural	135 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMITH RANCH COMPLEX
8 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	385 RIGHT OF WAY FIRE
7 July 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	600 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FULTON RANCH COMPLEX
17 July 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOLT SOUTH
25 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	385 SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY FIRE
19 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 March 2006	Smoking	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Murdo: 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Judd Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oldham 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
Hollicott Crossing	5.5 miles	6
Old Tascosa (historical)	7.4 miles	6
Boys Ranch	7.4 miles	6
Tascosa	8.6 miles	6
Old Farm Crossing	14.5 miles	6
Strip Crossing	17.4 miles	6
Partwood Crossing	18.4 miles	6
Wimberly Place	25.6 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380228. 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.