Fairacres, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Fairacres census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88007. The Survey maps it on the Las Cruces quadrangle. 720 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,898 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFairacres fell from 824 to 720 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 824 | |
| 2020 | 720 | -104 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1941 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fairacres between 1994 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Las Cruces Field Office | PICACHO |
| 10 May 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | ANGI |
| 3 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Socorro District | FOG |
| 27 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | COSMO |
| 14 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | MESILLA |
| 14 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Las Cruces Field Office | GLASS |
| 14 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | WOODMAN PARK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Fairacres: 6 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | Limestone | |
| Last Chance Group | Manganese | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lauer Claims | Manganese | Occurrence | Pyrolusite, Wad | |
| Manganese No. 1 Claim | Manganese | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Las Cruces West Sand and Gravel Site | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand and Gravel | |
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit 65-4-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit 66-53-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Picacho Peak | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel |
Storms near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairacres in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2015: 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 6 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Lightning | Fairacres | 6 hurt | Six people, including several middle school football players were injured from the initial lightning strike from a nearby thunderstorm. No fatalities occurred with this lightning strike, but one student who was closest to the strike suffered significant injuries and was in the hospital for over a week. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Fairacres | - | Pea to quarter size hail just west of Las Cruces. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picacho | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Picacho Hills | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Mesilla | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Las Cruces | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| San Ysidro | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Four Points | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Mesilla Park | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| University Park | 5.1 miles | 15 |
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 Fairacres | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5855356 | The 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 888947. 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.








