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Pendaries Village, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Las Vegas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87742. The Survey maps it on the Rociada quadrangle.

Pendaries Village within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Pendaries Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,046 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 2017Natural20 acresSanta Fe National ForestBEAVER CREEK
9 August 2004Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestHERMIT
6 August 2015Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestDAVY
3 August 2000Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestBUELAH
29 August 2015Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTIJERA
18 August 2010Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictPRITZLAFF
1 August 2004Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTHUNDER
4 July 2007Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestINDEPENDENCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Pendaries Village: 6 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. 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
Azure-Rising Sun MineGold, Molybdenum, CopperPast Producer1900, 1940
Joe Matt & Sam Adams MineLead, Copper, Silver, ZincUnknown
Santo NinoMolybdenum, CopperProspect
Joe and Jenny ProspectCopperOccurrence
Martinez PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Good Hope MineZincUnknown
Unnamed MineZincUnknown
Unnamed MineZincUnknown
Unnamed ProspectsZincOccurrence

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rociada1.7 miles15
Upper Rociada3.3 miles15
San Ignacio3.8 miles16
Canoncito4.4 miles16
Tierra Monte4.5 miles16
Peñasco Blanco4.9 miles16
Las Dispensas5.1 miles16
Manuelitas6.7 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 Q122549229The 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 913702. 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.