Fort Sumner, NM Mobile Kitchen Trailer Lease for Renovations

When a permanent kitchen in Fort Sumner is closed for renovation, repairs or an equipment failure, a rented mobile commercial kitchen lets meal service continue from a trailer parked on site. If the work spills into Santa Rosa, 40 miles from here, or into Portales, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.

Match the trailer to the menu: the 38ft Mobile Kitchen for a focused cooking line, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen for more production room, and the 24ft Mobile Kitchen where bulk cooking or a walk-in cooler matters. Power requirements are shown on every page.

Kitchen requests in Fort Sumner tend to fall into a few groups: disaster-response teams, manufacturers, municipal agencies and school districts. Our industry pages explain what each group usually needs and how a rental is planned around it. Care homes in Dexter and school kitchens in Las Vegas, places of about 1,055 residents and about 12,711 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.

CMS lists no hospital in De Baca County; the nearest county with one is Guadalupe County, about 42 miles away. Public schools here number 3, enrolling about 267 students, with Fort Sumner among the larger districts (NCES).

• Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: feeding responders, crews and displaced staff after an incident
• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: cafeteria renovation across multiple shifts
• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: senior-nutrition and community meal programs that cannot pause
• School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: equipment failures that close a single school's kitchen mid-year

Census estimates put Fort Sumner at 857 people in 2024, 69th of 77 New Mexico places covered here. It covers about 3.3 square miles of De Baca County. De Baca County covers 2,323 square miles, and Fort Sumner is the only place in it covered on this site. Population density is roughly 259 people per square mile. In a straight line, Fort Sumner sits about 129 miles from Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico. Santa Rosa is the closest larger covered place, roughly 40 straight-line miles from Fort Sumner.

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

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

A kitchen is only half of food service. A dishwashing trailer such as the 30ft High-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer (220V, 3 phase, 200A) handles trays, plates and pans so Fort Sumner kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Clovis, 58 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

When a compressor quits, product loss follows within hours. Emergency refrigerated trailers, such as the 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F, are rented to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and institutions around Fort Sumner. In Roswell, where Chaves County has 7 federal declarations on record, the call for emergency refrigeration begins the same way.

A typical January night in De Baca County drops to 25°F, a typical July afternoon reaches 92°F, and the county gets about 14 inches of precipitation in a year (NOAA, 1991 to 2020). January lows run about 3 degrees warmer than the average New Mexico county. Four distinct seasons mean the plan covers both ends: cold-weather water lines in winter and condenser airflow in summer.

Moving the job to Capitan or Estancia changes the pad and the paperwork; the list below stays the same.

• Pad and access: a level area, a clear approach for the trailer length and room for food deliveries.
• Contacts: name the person who will meet the delivery and the person who will approve the setup.
• Entry: tell us if the door needs a ramp or stairs; the setup times differ.

The site planning guides cover each of these items in more depth.

Facilities near Fort Sumner often compare notes with neighbors. These places are close enough to plan together, measured in straight-line miles from Fort Sumner, not driving distance.

• Santa Rosa, NM: about 40 miles from Fort Sumner, about 2,824 residents
• Portales, NM: about 54 miles from Fort Sumner, about 11,789 residents
• Tucumcari, NM: about 55 miles from Fort Sumner, about 5,058 residents
• Clovis, NM: about 58 miles from Fort Sumner, about 37,555 residents
• Roswell, NM: about 79 miles from Fort Sumner, about 47,176 residents
• Dexter, NM: about 90 miles from Fort Sumner, about 1,055 residents

The nearest New Mexico counties to Fort Sumner are Guadalupe County (42 miles), Curry County (50 miles) and Roosevelt County (53 miles).

• Guadalupe County: about 42 miles from Fort Sumner, 7 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Curry County: about 50 miles from Fort Sumner, 4 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Roosevelt County: about 53 miles from Fort Sumner, 5 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

Mobile kitchens in Fort Sumner 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.