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Pacheco Village, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87732. It stands on Aito del Taico. The Survey maps it on the Gascon quadrangle.

Pacheco Village within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

82 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Pacheco Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. 27 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/undetermined36
Natural27
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMORPHY
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROMO
2 August 2009Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictSAWYER
19 August 2013Natural1.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRINCON
18 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMULTIPLE
18 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSECOND
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLas Vegas District21-40060035X
6 July 2014Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMOSS ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pacheco Village: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Beryllium. 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
Great Western MineMicaPast Producer1949, 1952
Mora Beryl ProspectBerylliumOccurrence
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mora 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
Monte Aplanado0.8 miles16
Cañon1.6 miles16
Abuelo1.7 miles16
Cordillera1.8 miles16
Cleveland2.2 miles16
Vallecitos2.5 miles16
Santa Gertrudis (historical)2.7 miles16
Mora2.9 miles16

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 Q122547641The 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 909423. 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.