Hooverville, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Conchas Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88416. It lies near Rattlesnake Island. The Survey maps it on the Conchas Dam quadrangle.

Hooverville within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Conchas Dam quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hooverville between 2000 and 2018, burning about 419 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
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 June 2017	Natural	56 acres	Las Vegas District	RIVER BOTTOM
30 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	AIRPORT
7 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
25 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GABLE
6 March 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CLABBER HILL
5 March 2000	Debris and open burning	175 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BELL
16 March 2018	Smoking	75 acres	Las Vegas District	CUERVO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hooverville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Conchas	0.6 miles	6
La Cinta (historical)	5.2 miles	6
Variadero	12.8 miles	6
Adero Az	12.9 miles	6
San Rafael	15.0 miles	6
San Ramon	15.8 miles	7
New Trementina	15.9 miles	6
Trementina	17.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899675. 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.