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Hachita, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hurley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88040. The Survey maps it on the Hachita quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,521 feet above sea level.

Hachita within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Hachita grew from 49 to 52 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
201049
202052+3 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hachita between 1997 and 2012, burning about 1,692 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCEMETARY
23 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROBBINS
30 July 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
3 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBP
19 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1,663 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHACHITA
26 April 2000Smoking1.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeHACHITA
23 April 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCLUSTER
16 March 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSMITH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hachita: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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
Christmas Tree MineSilver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Hachita PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Minero3.2 miles14
Old Hachita6.0 miles14
Vista7.1 miles14
Pothook10.1 miles14
Brockman16.6 miles9
Separ20.2 miles9
Wilna20.4 miles9
Gold Hill (historical)37.5 miles10

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 HachitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5891026The 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 920609. 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.