Clayton, NM Mobile Commercial Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Cold Storage

A mobile kitchen trailer rental in Clayton puts a complete commercial cooking line beside the building that needs it, so a closed kitchen does not have to mean closed meal service. Requests from Raton (78 miles away) and Tucumcari start from the same questions about menu, crew and power, even though the places are far apart.

Kitchens in the fleet run from the 24ft Mobile Kitchen up to the 40ft Bulk Combo Kitchen. For a site like this one, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen, 38ft Mobile Kitchen and 24ft Mobile Kitchen are the models to compare first, each with its listed equipment and electrical requirements.

Pair the kitchen with dishwashing. The 38ft Low-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer lists conveyor-type low-temperature dishwasher, a three-compartment sink and a handwashing sink, on 220V, single phase, 220A. Warewashing needs the same hot water and drain plan in Las Vegas, 129 miles from here, as it does here.

When a compressor quits, product loss follows within hours. Emergency refrigerated trailers, such as the 20ft LT Refrigerated Trailer, are rented to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and institutions around Clayton. In Santa Rosa, where Guadalupe County has 7 federal declarations on record, the call for emergency refrigeration begins the same way.

Climate normals for Union County run from an average January low of 19°F to an average July high of 88°F, with roughly 16 inches of precipitation yearly. January lows run about 3 degrees colder than the average New Mexico county. With nights that cold, a kitchen trailer needs heated or insulated water lines, and a refrigerated trailer should not be asked to hold product warm against freezing air.

Sources: OpenFEMA (retrieved October 30, 2026); NOAA Storm Events, NIFC fire perimeters, NOAA nClimDiv normals, CMS provider data, NCES school data and USASpending.gov (retrieved October 31, 2026). Public records for an area or a project, not damage reports or work we did.

Expect requests in Clayton from municipal agencies, disaster-response teams, nursing homes and golf clubs. A municipal temporary kitchen is a typical first conversation, followed by questions about power, water and placement. Care homes in Taos and school kitchens in Questa, places of about 6,453 residents and about 1,801 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.

CMS lists one hospital in Union County: Union County General Hospital, a critical access hospital. The county also has 1 nursing home certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 45 beds. Public schools here number 7, enrolling about 539 students, with Clayton, Des Moines and Nm Corrections among the larger districts (NCES).

• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: senior-nutrition and community meal programs that cannot pause
• Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: feeding responders, crews and displaced staff after an incident
• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: equipment failure in an older kitchen that cannot be repaired quickly
• Golf Course and Country Club Kitchen Trailer Rentals: a need for cold storage during peak weekends

Clayton is the 43rd most populous of the 77 New Mexico places this site covers, with an estimated 2,559 residents in 2024. The town spans roughly 7.8 square miles in Union County. Union County covers 3,825 square miles, and Clayton is the only place in it covered on this site. That works out to about 328 residents per square mile. In a straight line, Clayton sits about 167 miles from Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico. The nearest larger place covered here is Raton, about 78 miles away in a straight line.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.

Sites in Clovis, 139 miles away, and Pecos use the same checklist; only the pad and the paperwork change.

• Potable water: kitchens and dishwashing trailers need a clean supply close to where they sit.
• Supplies: mark a drop point for food and paper goods that keeps carts away from utility lines.
• Power: check the panel and service against the trailer's listed requirement before anything is scheduled.

Read the site planning section before you fix a delivery date.

A shared kitchen need can span several communities. The nearest places to Clayton are listed with their straight-line distance; road distance and delivery time will differ.

• Raton, NM: about 78 miles from Clayton, about 6,005 residents
• Tucumcari, NM: about 93 miles from Clayton, about 5,058 residents
• Angel Fire, NM: about 117 miles from Clayton, about 1,183 residents
• Las Vegas, NM: about 129 miles from Clayton, about 12,711 residents
• Santa Rosa, NM: about 135 miles from Clayton, about 2,824 residents
• Taos, NM: about 135 miles from Clayton, about 6,453 residents

The nearest New Mexico counties to Clayton are Harding County (56 miles), Colfax County (84 miles) and Quay County (95 miles).

• Harding County: about 56 miles from Clayton, 6 FEMA declarations since records began, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
• Colfax County: about 84 miles from Clayton, 16 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Quay County: about 95 miles from Clayton, 5 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

Mobile kitchens in Clayton come first, and the rest follows from the site. Where crews live and work on site, laundry trailer rentals (for example the 24ft Laundry Trailer) and bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals (the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit) can sit beside the kitchen. We confirm the exact unit and price in a written quote.