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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.

Fairacres within Doña Ana County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairacres 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.

YearPeople Change
2010824
2020720-104 (-13%)

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

7 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning1

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 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficePICACHO
10 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeANGI
3 April 2020Debris and open burning80 acresSocorro DistrictFOG
27 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeCOSMO
14 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMESILLA
14 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeGLASS
14 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWOODMAN PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceLimestone
Last Chance GroupManganeseOccurrenceVein
Lauer ClaimsManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite, Wad
Manganese No. 1 ClaimManganeseOccurrenceReplacement
Las Cruces West Sand and Gravel SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 65-4-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 66-53-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Picacho PeakSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014LightningFairacres6 hurtSix 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 2015HailFairacres-Pea to quarter size hail just west of Las Cruces.

Every storm recorded in Doña Ana 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
Picacho1.4 miles15
Picacho Hills1.5 miles15
Mesilla3.4 miles15
Las Cruces3.7 miles15
San Ysidro3.7 miles15
Four Points4.2 miles15
Mesilla Park4.7 miles15
University Park5.1 miles15

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 FairacresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5855356The 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.