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.
Population over time
2 figuresHachita 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 49 | |
| 2020 | 52 | +3 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1918 USGS Hachita quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Hachita quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Animas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CEMETARY |
| 23 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROBBINS |
| 30 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 3 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BP |
| 19 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,663 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HACHITA |
| 26 April 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | HACHITA |
| 23 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CLUSTER |
| 16 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SMITH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas Tree Mine | Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Hachita Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minero | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Old Hachita | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Vista | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Pothook | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Brockman | 16.6 miles | 9 | |
| Separ | 20.2 miles | 9 | |
| Wilna | 20.4 miles | 9 | |
| Gold Hill (historical) | 37.5 miles | 10 |
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 Hachita | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5891026 | 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 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.






