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Bernal, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87569. It lies near Starvation Peak. The Survey maps it on the Tecolote quadrangle.

Bernal within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bernal between 1994 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 August 2019Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas District20-40190191X
9 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCHICO
6 July 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDEAD HORSE
21 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFA #5
2 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBERNAL
14 July 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSANDS
29 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARTINEZ
27 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSLASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bernal: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Blake MineCopperPast Producer1900, 1905
Blake MineCopperPast Producer
Bonanza MineCopperPast Producer1900, 1905
Bonanza MineCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bernal in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2014Funnel CloudBernal-Local broadcast media relayed a photo of a funnel cloud near Bernal.
July 1994HailBernal-State police reported Ping-Pong ball-size hail and heavy rain which forced cars off the road along Interstate 25.
August 1996HailBernal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Miguel 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Serafina0.5 miles15
Chapelle1.3 miles15
Blanchard2.1 miles15
Lagunita4.2 miles14
Tecolote5.1 miles15
Gabaldon5.9 miles15
Santa Ana6.1 miles15
Los Montoyas6.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 903757. 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.