Milagro, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vaughn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88321. It lies near Encinosa Draw. The Survey maps it on the Milagro quadrangle.

Milagro within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Milagro quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Milagro between 1994 and 2017, burning about 2,658 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	3
Smoking	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
26 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	TOM
18 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MIGUEL
4 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LOST
11 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MONK
21 June 2017	Natural	932 acres	Bernalillo District	HIGHLAND
22 May 2003	Natural	600 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LION
22 May 2003	Natural	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MILAGRO
26 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MILAGRO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe 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 Milagro: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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 58-16-S	Limestone, General	Past Producer
	Materials Pit 59-13-F	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
Sombrio (historical)	6.7 miles	6
Pintada	9.7 miles	6
Dahlia	12.8 miles	13
Vegas Junction	13.4 miles	6
San Ignacio	15.6 miles	6
Llano Viejo	18.2 miles	13
Llano Del Medio	18.7 miles	13
Anton Chico	18.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899797. 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.