Paraje, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Socorro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87832. The Survey maps it on the Paraje Well quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Paraje within Socorro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Tucson Spring quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Tularosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paraje Well quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS San Mateo Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Paraje (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,369 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
24 August 2011	Natural	550 acres	Socorro Field Office	CATFISH
16 August 2020	Natural	721 acres	Socorro Field Office	FORT CRAIG 2
12 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NOGAL
30 July 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	Socorro Field Office	EL CAMINO REAL
26 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	685 acres	Socorro Field Office	FORT CRAIG
25 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Socorro Field Office	NARROWS
6 June 2020	Natural	325 acres	Socorro Field Office	FORT CRAIG
28 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Socorro Field Office	CATTAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Socorro 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
Hard Luck Crossing	4.0 miles	10
Lava	5.8 miles	11
Craig (historical)	5.9 miles	10
San Marcial	10.6 miles	10
Val Verde	12.1 miles	10
Tiffany	13.0 miles	10
San Antonito	25.1 miles	10
Rosedale (historical)	25.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920188. 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.