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Chamizal, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Socorro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87828. It stands on San Lorenzo Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Lemitar quadrangle. 51 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,665 feet above sea level.

Chamizal within Socorro County

Population over time

2 figures

Chamizal fell from 101 to 51 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010101
202051-50 (-50%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Chamizal between 1995 and 2019, burning about 105 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2

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
23 August 2010Natural2.0 acresSevilleta National Wildlife RefugeBOWLING GREEN
5 July 2013Naturalunder an acreSevilleta National Wildlife RefugeCEMETERY
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division164
3 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROBERTA
27 June 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSLAYTON
22 June 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionACACIA
2 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCORDOVA
12 June 2001Debris and open burning3.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Socorro County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Chamizal: 8 unknowns, 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Iron, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silica, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead. 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
Bachelder-Everheart ProspectBarium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, LeadPast Producer
Joyita ProspectsIron, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, SilicaOccurrence
Lemitar MountainsUraniumOccurrence
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Socorro 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
Polvadera1.0 miles13
McNierney1.7 miles13
Alamillo2.6 miles9
San Acacia2.7 miles9
Lemitar4.0 miles13
La Joyita (historical)4.2 miles10
Pueblito6.8 miles14
Escondida8.1 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ChamizalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5764343The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 923582. 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.