Newman, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the El Paso Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79934. The Survey maps it on the Fort Bliss NE quadrangle.

Newman within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1908 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1942 USGS Fort Bliss quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Fort Bliss quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Fort Bliss NE quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Fort Bliss NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Fort Bliss NE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Newman in 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
23 March 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Capitan District	329 QUINTANA

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Newman: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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	Recorded
Newman Pit	Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Materials Pit 56-77-F	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 64-4-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Newman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand

Every working recorded in El Paso County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newman in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2009	Flash Flood	Newman	$150,000	Slow moving thunderstorms dropped heavy rain in eastern El Paso County which resulted and flooding across mainly east El Paso and Socorro. Four houses were flooded and 13 evacuated, most of them in Socorro. In addition, there were 9 water rescues across the area.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Newman	$5,000	Widespread street flooding over parts of east El Paso and Montana Vista. Water was entering the home on Linda Rene St. in Montana Vista area.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Newman	-	Flooding was reported at Hueco Tanks State Park. Low water crossing topped with over 6 inches of water leading into the park.
September 2025	Flash Flood	Newman	-	Hueco Tanks reported 1.54 inches of rain which caused flash flooding at the state park causing the road out to be blocked and visitors stranded.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Newman	-	Social media report of tree damage in northeast El Paso.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Newman	-	Spotter 5 miles south-southwest of Hueco Tanks reported power out and pea size hail.
April 2014	Hail	Newman	-	Hail covered ground.
September 2009	Hail	Newman	-	Nickel to quarter size hail fell at Hueco Tanks State Park.
September 2009	Hail	Newman	-	Golfball size hail fell south of Hueco Tanks State Park. This was the first of two supercells in El Paso County this day, but it remained over mainly a sparsely populated area.

Every storm recorded in El Paso 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
Mountain View	10.2 miles	21
Del Norte Acres	10.7 miles	21
Britton Davis	10.7 miles	21
Sunrise Acres	11.3 miles	21
Aero Vista	12.4 miles	21
Paso View West Colonia	12.9 miles	17
Paso el Rey Number 3 Colonia	13.1 miles	17
Planeport	13.1 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034734. 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.