Pajarita, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87552. It lies near Cañon Pajarita. The Survey maps it on the Rowe quadrangle.

Pajarita within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1894 USGS Lamy quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Pajarita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	3

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
3 September 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Santa Fe National Forest	MESA
5 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ORTIZ
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HIWAY
29 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROWE
27 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	TRIGOS
21 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	LOBO
21 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	not named
18 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	WELCOME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pajarita: 4 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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
Rowe	2.1 miles	14
Gise	2.5 miles	14
South San Ysidro	3.9 miles	14
North San Ysidro	4.8 miles	14
Ilfeld	5.8 miles	14
Lower Colonias	5.8 miles	15
East Pecos	7.1 miles	16
Pecos	7.2 miles	16

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 Q122543711

The 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 909441. 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.