The Blackdom Story Map highlights the history of a little known event in New Mexico History. The first all-black settlement in New Mexico was incorporated in 1903 and occupied until the mid-1920s by up to 300 people. Blackdom had a school, post office and several churches during this time. This… Continue reading
When updating a recent story map we wanted to include a mailto: tag but I couldn’t find an email link in the hosted story map tool. After some internet sleuthing I realized I was making it harder than it needed to be. When editing your story map, click on the… Continue reading
As per NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) National Drought Overview for 2014, the United States experienced a significant recovery from the major 2012 drought on a national scale during 2013. The drought conditions returned in early 2014 with recovery in later year, contributing to the overall decrease in drought… Continue reading
In February 2014, Earth Data Analysis Center received a request from the U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s office to determine the shrinking state of snow-pack in New Mexico. Our Remote Sensing Specialist performed data analysis using the satellite image data obtained from the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) at… Continue reading
Impacts of September 2013 Flooding in New Mexico story map focuses on the impacts of the rain event that took place between September 10 and 18, 2013 that caused extensive flooding and record stream flows across the State resulting in two Presidential Disaster Declarations totaling more than $18 million. This… Continue reading
ESRI made a free ArcGIS extension—ArcHydro—useful for water resources applications, including analyzing hydrology and watershed models. It can be used to delineate watersheds with either raster or vector data, analyze hydro networks and terrain, perform attribute-based tracing, and export numerical data models. Nine tools are found in an Arc Hydro… Continue reading
The statewide 2014 National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) 1 meter aerial photography is now available for download. The imagery data are available as Mr. Sid compressed county mosaics (CCM). RGIS also serves polygons that delineate the seamline boundaries of the NAIP imagery that are used in creating these CCMs. To… Continue reading
The summer of 2013 brought extreme weather to New Mexico. By mid-summer, New Mexico was in the driest two-year period on record, and 45% of the state was in exceptional drought. By the end of summer, however, New Mexico had experienced its 6th wettest monsoon season, resulting in widespread flooding… Continue reading
Fred Harvey began building hotels, restaurants, news stands, and sightseeing tours throughout the American Southwest in the late 1800’s. Use this map to learn more about Fred Harvey Properties located in New Mexico. Locations are provided with varying degrees of accuracy, and should not be used for navigation. Some locations… Continue reading
New Mexico’s history of mining and exploration makes it home to hundreds of abandoned settlements. Intrepid research into the history of these settlements yielded a compilation of our state’s documented ghost towns. Here is a link to the interative map. The data used to create this map, which includes names,… Continue reading
