Picacho Hills, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Fairacres census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88007. It lies near Picacho Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Las Cruces quadrangle.

Picacho Hills within Doña Ana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1891 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1941 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Picacho Hills between 1994 and 2010, burning about 52 acres in total. None 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	6

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
23 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Las Cruces Field Office	PICACHO
10 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	ANGI
27 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	COSMO
14 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Las Cruces Field Office	GLASS
14 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	WOODMAN PARK
25 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Las Cruces Field Office	SHADY ACRES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Picacho Hills: 6 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Recorded
Unnamed Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence	Limestone
Last Chance Group	Manganese	Occurrence	Vein
Lauer Claims	Manganese	Occurrence	Pyrolusite, Wad
Manganese No. 1 Claim	Manganese	Occurrence	Replacement
Las Cruces West Sand and Gravel Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand and Gravel
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 65-4-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 66-53-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Picacho Peak	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel

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
Picacho	1.4 miles	15
Fairacres	1.5 miles	15
San Ysidro	4.1 miles	15
Mesilla	4.8 miles	15
Las Cruces	5.0 miles	15
Four Points	5.7 miles	15
Doña Ana	6.1 miles	15
Mesilla Park	6.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806698. 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.