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Hanover, New Mexico

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Mimbres census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88041. It lies near Buckhorn Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rita Mine quadrangle. 144 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,368 feet above sea level.

Hanover within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Hanover fell from 167 to 144 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
2010167
2020144-23 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Hanover between 1992 and 2020, burning about 626 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined31
Natural22
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
26 August 2019Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestSHINGLE
21 August 2003Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestBAYARD
20 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHANOVER
16 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestFORT
14 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
9 July 1996Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestRABBIT
7 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSocorro DistrictMOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 146 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 146 workings within 5 miles of Hanover: 117 past producers, 16 prospects, 8 producers, 3 plants. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Copper, Zinc, 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
Bullfrog MillZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Bullfrog MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold, MolybdenumPast Producer1905, 1961
Bullfrog MineZinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
ChinoCopper, Silver, Molybdenum, GoldPlant1801, 1912
Chino MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, PGE, LeadProducer1800, 1804
Clinoptilolite OccurrenceZeolitesOccurrenceClinoptilolite
Combination-Hobo MinesZinc, Lead, Copper, SilverPast Producer1952
Commercial MineSilver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, VanadiumPast Producer1875, 1942
Commercial MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, VanadiumPast Producer
Continental Breccia PipeZinc, Copper, MolybdenumProspectHydrothermal Breccia-Filling

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
Wimsattville0.6 miles17
Turnerville0.9 miles17
Union Hill1.6 miles17
Santa Rita (historical)1.7 miles17
Ivanhoe (historical)2.1 miles17
Fierro2.3 miles17
Cobre2.5 miles17
Hanover Junction2.7 miles17

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 HanoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5891841The 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 906824. 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.