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Lower San Francisco Plaza, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Reserve census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87830. It stands on Tularosa River. The Survey maps it on the Reserve quadrangle.

Lower San Francisco Plaza within Catron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Lower San Francisco Plaza between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,292 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 11 were 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
Natural86
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGila National ForestFISHER
18 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGila National ForestRANCHO
12 September 2012Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestHIGHLOWER
9 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
8 August 1993Natural3.0 acresGila National Forestnot named
7 August 2009Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestSALIZ
4 August 1994Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
31 August 1997Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestDUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catron County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lower San Francisco Plaza: 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials Pit 56-80-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
S. U. Canyon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Starkweather PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Catron 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
San Francisco Plaza2.4 miles14
Reserve3.8 miles14
Rancho Grande Estates4.3 miles14
Potato Patch9.1 miles14
Aspen Mountain9.8 miles15
Cruzville11.9 miles13
Luna13.9 miles14
Apache Creek14.6 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122569111The 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 908286. 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.